Microwave Limb Sounder
Advanced Mission Concepts
CAMEOCAMEO's microwave instrument, the Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder (SMLS) is a major improvement of Aura MLS by having (1) simultaneous horizontal and vertical scans of the limb to provide much-needed improvement in horizontal resolution and coverage and (2) a programmable measurement suite to allow easy cost-effective response to atmospheric events and evolving measurement priorities. Overlapping measurements on adjacent orbits give 6 or more measurements per day over most of the globe. The image to the right shows CAMEO's overlapping coverage on successive orbits that gives an unprecedented combination of temporal, vertical, and horizontal resolution, and global coverage needed for progress in atmospheric science and applications. Orange shows the ARIES and TROPI instrument swaths; teal blue shows the SMLS instrument swath. Yellow numbers are universal times of successive measurements over Houston (blue dot) and Beijing (red dot) for this simulated ~24-hour measurement period. Note that the illustration switches from western hemisphere to eastern hemisphere views at 00:03 UT. CAMEO Documents-- 16 May 2005 concept document submitted to NRC Decadal Study( 10 pages, 8.6 MB .pdf file) -- 22 Feb 2006 presentation at NCAR Air Quality Remote Sensing from Space Workshop (10 slides) 45 MB .pdf file of slides and orbit animation 8 MB .pdf file that includes script for talk 37 MB .mpg orbit animation file -- 28 Apr 2006 update to add ARIES thermal infrared instrument (1 page summary text plus figures, 10.7 MB .pdf file) |
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