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TI: Calibration and Characterization of the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
AU: * Rider, D
EM: david.rider@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 183-601 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Beer, R
EM: reinhard.beer@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 183-601 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Fisher, B
EM: Brendan.fisher@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 183-601 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Luo, M
EM: mingzhao.luo@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 183-601 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Worden, H
EM: helen.worden@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 183-601 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: Prior to shipment of the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) to the AURA spacecraft in late April, 2003, the instrument was put through an extensive series of thermal vacuum tests, over an 8-month period, to characterize and calibrate the instrument performance. During these tests, measurements were made to characterize the field-of-view, radiometric and spectral performance of the instrument. The measurements were highly successful in for quantifying key instrument parameters and also permitted the characterization of many unexpected, but important instrument features. This presentation will describe the measurements and results of the TES pre-flight calibration.
DE: 0365 Troposphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting