CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- HALOE
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Full Name
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Halogen Occultation Experiment
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Status
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No longer operational
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Instrument Agencies
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NASA
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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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Nadir-viewing
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Instrument Technology
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Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
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Sampling
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Sounding
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Data Access
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Data Format
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Measurements and Applications
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Data on vertical distributions of hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids, methane, water vapour and members of the nitrogen family. It also provides atmospheric temperature versus pressure profiles from observations of carbon dioxide.
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Resolution Summary
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Swath Summary
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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