The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) for the Earth Observing System
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Oxford Univ. (United Kingdom). Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics; and others
The HIRDLS instrument is being designed to obtain data to address critical questions related to the middle atmosphere and its role in global change. The authors will briefly state the scientific objectives of the experiment, and then describe the requirements placed on the instrument. These include the ability to obtain measurements with 4{degree} latitudinal and longitudinal resolution, and 1 km vertical resolution, the ability to sound down into the upper troposphere when clouds are absent, and the ability to measure radiance profiles in order to infer temperature and the concentrations of a number of trace species of different chemical lifetimes, along with the gradients of the geopotential height fields, for 5 or more years. The HIRDLS instrument is a multichannel infrared limb scanner that significantly extends the measurement capabilities of earlier instruments such as LIMS and ISAMS. Advances include the use of a two-axis scanner to allow limb scans at multiple azimuths, narrow fields of view coupled with over-sampling, digital filtering and low noise to enhance vertical resolution, the use of larger numbers of channels to acquire data over a larger range of altitudes and the use of a gyroscope to determine motions of the optical bench. The ways in which this will be done will be described. The most demanding requirements are for radiometric accuracy and precision, and for precise pointing knowledge (in the presence of vibration). The results of trade-off studies will be presented, and the current conceptual design will be described.
- OSTI ID:
- 227963
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940723-; ISBN 0-8194-1590-1; TRN: IM9622%%240
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, San Diego, CA (United States), 24-29 Jul 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Optical spectroscopic techniques and instrumentation for atmospheric and space research; Wang, J.; Hays, P.B. [eds.]; PB: 662 p.; Proceedings/SPIE, Volume 2266
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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