CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- SMR
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Full Name
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Submillimetre Radiometer
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Status
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Operational
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Instrument Agencies
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SNSA
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Atmospheric chemistry 
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Geometry
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Instrument Technology
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Limb-scanning MW spectrometer
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Sampling
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Other
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Data Access
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Open Access
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Data Format
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Measurements and Applications
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Measures global distributions of ozone and species of importance for ozone chemistry ClO, HNO3, H2O, N2O, (HO2, H2O2). Measures temperature in the height range 15 - 100 km.
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Resolution Summary
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Vertical resolution 1.5 - 3 km, along track 600 km
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Swath Summary
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Altitudes of 5 - 100 km
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Accuracy Summary
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2 - 40% depending on species and altitude
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Waveband Summary
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Microwave: 118.7 GHz + 4 bands in the region 480 - 580 GHz: Tuneable measures 2 - 3 x 1 GHz regions at a time; ~0.1 cm - ~0.3 cm
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| FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) |
| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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