Measurements and Applications
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.
Full Name
Halogen Occultation Experiment
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Atmospheric chemistry 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
Sampling
Sounding
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
UARS - Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (1991 - 2005) |