Measurements and Applications
Atmospheric temperature profile
Full Name
Selective Chopper Radiometer
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer
Sampling
Resolution
30 km (40 km for pressure-modulated channels)
[Best Resolution: 30000m]
Swath
Nadir only. IFOV of the 4 channels around 668.2 cm-1: 40 km; for all other 12 channels: 30 km
Waveband
16-channel radiometer, with 4 channel implemented by a correlation spectrometer exploiting pressurised CO2 cells, the other 12 by a filter wedge spectrometer
NIMBUS-5 - Nimbus 5 (1972 - 1983) |