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Title: Final Report: High Spectral Resolution Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Studies with the ARM UAV

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/761175· OSTI ID:761175

The active participation in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV) science team that was anticipated in the grant proposal was indefinitely delayed after the first year due to a programmatic decision to exclude the high spectral resolution observations from the existing ARM UAV program. However, this report shows that substantial progress toward the science objectives of this grant have made with the help of separate funding from NASA and other agencies. In the four year grant period (including time extensions), a new high spectral resolution instrument has been flown and has successfully demonstrated the ability to obtain measurements of the type needed in the conduct of this grant. In the near term, the third water vapor intensive observing period (WVIOP-3) in October 2000 will provide an opportunity to bring the high spectral resolution observations of upwelling radiance into the ARM program to complement the downwelling radiance observations from the existing ARM AERI instruments. We look forward to a time when the ARM-UAV program is able to extend its scope to include the capability for making these high spectral resolution measurements from a UAV platform.

Research Organization:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-95ER61996
OSTI ID:
761175
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 31 Dec 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English