HR: 16:30h
AN: SA14A-03 [Abstracts]
TI: The Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment (SOFIE): In-Orbit Performance and Initial Results
AU: * Gordley, L L
EM: l.l.gordley@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Hervig, M E
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Russell, J M
EM: JAMES.RUSSELL@hamptonu.edu
AF: Hampton University, 23 Tyler Street, Hampton, VA 23668, United States
AU: Brown, C W
EM: c.w.brown@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Burton, J C
EM: j.c.burton@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Deaver, L E
EM: l.e.deaver@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Magill, B E
EM: b.e.magill@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: McHugh, M J
EM: m.j.mchugh@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Paxton, G J
EM: g.j.paxton@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AU: Thompson, R E
EM: r.e.thompson@gats-inc.com
AF: G & A Technical Software, Inc., 11864 Canon Boulevard
Suite 101, Newport News, VA 23606, United States
AB:
The SOFIE instrument was launched on-board the AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite on April 25,
2007. SOFIE provides measurements for the study of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) that appear near 83km,
just below the high latitude summer mesopause. The instrument has now operated nominally through the first
northern hemisphere PMC season. SOFIE is designed to measure broadband transmission to extremely high
precision (<10e-5), to obtain relative tangent altitude knowledge to high precision (sample spacing error
~ 1 meter), and to measure refraction bending angles to unprecedented accuracy (~ 0.1 arc second).
Initial success in achieving these measurements and converting them to profiles of temperature, pressure, water
vapor, ozone, methane, nitric oxide, carbon dioxide and ice extinction will be presented.
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting