Wide-band spectrally resolved measurement of the Earth's up-welling radiation with the REFIR-PAD spectroradiometer

Giovanni Bianchini; Luca Palchetti; Claudio Belotti; Samuele Del Bianco; Ugo Cortesi

doi:10.1117/12.689265

12 October 2006 Wide-band spectrally resolved measurement of the Earth's up-welling radiation with the REFIR-PAD spectroradiometer

Giovanni Bianchini, Luca Palchetti, Claudio Belotti, Samuele Del Bianco, Ugo Cortesi

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Proceedings Volume 6362, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XI; 63622K (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.689265
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract

The REFIR-PAD (Radiation Explorer in the Far InfraRed-Prototype for Applications and Development) Fourier transform spectroradiometer has successfully performed, at the end of June, 2005, a stratospheric balloon flight from Teresina, Brazil. The instrument has provided 8 hours worth of nadir-looking spectra acquired with a resolution of 0.5 cm^-1 in the 100 to 1400 cm^-1 spectral range, thus covering both the far-infrared range, containing the radiative signature of the upper tropospheric water vapour, and the better-known mid-infrared range, which provides validation with existing instruments. From the analysis of the calibrated spectra we obtain valuable information on the contribution to the Earth's outgoing long-wave radiation of water, both in the vapour and cloud form, in a region of the atmosphere, the upper-troposphere/lower-stratosphere, in which this contribution has a critical role.

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Giovanni Bianchini, Luca Palchetti, Claudio Belotti, Samuele Del Bianco, and Ugo Cortesi "Wide-band spectrally resolved measurement of the Earth's up-welling radiation with the REFIR-PAD spectroradiometer", Proc. SPIE 6362, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XI, 63622K (12 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.689265

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