Screen LibrarySpectral imaging of the atmosphere /
Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. A bewildering variety of optical instruments have been proposed over the years, making it difficult to decide which instrument should be chosen to mak...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | San Diego, Calif. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
International geophysics series ;
volume 82 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00746142/82 |
| Summary: |
Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. A bewildering variety of optical instruments have been proposed over the years, making it difficult to decide which instrument should be chosen to make a specific measurement. Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere traces the historical development of both spectral and imaging methods and places them in a unified framework relevant to observations of the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. The underlying concepts of various measur. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780080517513 008051751X 9780126394818 0126394814 1281028894 9781281028891 |
| Index Number: | QC912 |
| CLC: | P4-3 |
| Contents: | Observing atmospheric radiation -- Spectral concepts -- Instrument responsivity and superiority -- Imaging concepts -- The Fabry-Perot spectrometer -- The Michelson interferometer -- Multiplexers and modulators -- Doppler-Michelson interferometry -- Operational atmospheric spectral imagers -- Future atmospheric spectral imagers -- Grating spectrometers as spectral imagers. |