Short Course on Satellite Meteorology
AMS 78th Annual Meeting
11 January 1998   Phoenix, Arizona
Absorption Spectra - GOES Sounder
 
Primary absorbing atmospheric constituents:

             o Carbon Dioxide

                Longwave:  11 - 18 microns  (Surface/Atmospheric Temperature)
                Shortwave:  4 - 6 microns  (Surface/Lower Atmospheric Temperature)
 

             o Water Vapor

                Midwave:  6 - 10 microns  (Atmospheric Moisture)
 

             o Ozone

                9.6 microns:  (Total Column Atmospheric Ozone)
 

 
 
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