ON THE USE OF O-2 SPIN-ROTATION LINES FOR ELEVATION ANGLE CALIBRATION OF ATMOSPHERIC THERMAL EMISSION-SPECTRA

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作者
CHANCE, KV
TRAUB, WA
JUCKS, KW
JOHNSON, DG
机构
[1] Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFRARED AND MILLIMETER WAVES | 1991年 / 12卷 / 06期
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10.1007/BF01010377
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The magnetic dipole-allowed spin-rotation lines of O2 potentially can be used for pointing calibration and confirmation of float altilude for far infrared spectra of the stratosphere obtained from balloon platforms. We demonstrate that current deficiencies in the spectroscopic database, particularly the air pressure-broadening coefficients, severely limit the capability of deriving useful pointing calibrations, and that precise pressure-bradening measurements for the transitions actually used in calibration are needed to improve this capability.
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