Measurements and Applications
Data on emissions of chlorine monoxide, water vapour and ozone. Data also used for determination of atmospheric pressure and temperatures as a function of altitude from observations of molecular oxygen emissions.
Full Name
Microwave Limb Sounder (UARS)
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders 
and Atmospheric chemistry
Geometry
Limb-scanning
Instrument Technology
Limb-scanning MW spectrometer
Sampling
Sounding
| FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) |
| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
UARS - Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (1991 - 2005) |