Measurements of the Vertical Profile of Water Vapor Abundance in the Martian Atmosphere from Mars Observer
Abstract
An analysis is presented of the Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer (PMIRR) capabilities along with how the vertical profiles of water vapor will be obtained. The PMIRR will employ filter and pressure modulation radiometry using nine spectral channels, in both limb scanning and nadir sounding modes, to obtain daily, global maps of temperature, dust extinction, condensate extinction, and water vapor mixing ratio profiles as a function of pressure to half scale height or 5 km vertical resolution. Surface thermal properties will also be mapped, and the polar radiactive balance will be monitored.
- Publication:
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MECA Workshop on Atmospheric H2O Observations of Earth and Mars
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988ahoe.work...82S
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Temperature;
- Dust;
- Extinction;
- Mars Atmosphere;
- Vertical Distribution;
- Water Vapor;
- Abundance;
- Infrared Radiometers;
- Mars Observer;
- Pressure Modulator Radiometers;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration