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Stratospheric minor constituent distributions from far-infrared thermal emission spectraWe retrieve mixing ratio profiles of O3, H2(O-16), H2(O-17), H2(O-18), HF, and HCl from far-infrared thermal emission observations of the limb in the 80-220 cm/sec spectral region. The observations were made with a balloon-borne Fourier transform spectrometer as a part of the 1983 Balloon Intercomparison Campaign (BIC-2). A subset of the data was analyzed previously using the method in the work of Traub et al. (1982, 1991); in the present paper we use an alternative method of calibration and analysis, given by Abbas et al. (1985). The retrieved constituent profiles are compared with the measurements made with other instruments on the BIC-2 flights. The results for the concentrations of H2(O-17) and H2(O-18) obtained in this study indicate no isotopic enhancement or depletion with a standard deviation of about 20 percent.
Document ID
19930033083
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Abbas, Mian M.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Traub, Wesley A.
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
November 20, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 97
Issue: D16
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
93A17080
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSG-5175
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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