CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- ACE-FTS
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Full Name
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Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Fourier Transform Spectrometer
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Status
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Operational
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Instrument Agencies
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CSA
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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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Occultation
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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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Open Access
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Data Format
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ASCII, HDF, NetCDF
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Measurements and Applications
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Measure and understand the chemical processes that control the distribution of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, especially at high altitudes.
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Resolution Summary
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Swath Summary
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Accuracy Summary
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Depends on species, meets requirements for climate variables
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Waveband Summary
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SWIR - TIR: 2 - 5.5 µm, 5.5 - 13 µm (0.02 cm-1 resolution)
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| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
| MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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| Category | Parameter |
| Aerosols | Aerosol Extinction / Backscatter (column/profile)   |
| Aerosol absorption optical depth (HT, LS, HS&M) |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | Atmospheric temperature (LS, HS&M) |
| Height of tropopause |
| Temperature of tropopause |
| Atmospheric Winds | Wind profile (horizontal) |
| Cloud particle properties and profile | Cloud liquid water (column/profile) |
| Ozone | O3 Mole Fraction |
| Trace gases (excluding ozone) | CH4 Mole Fraction |
| CO2 Mole Fraction |
| CO Mole Fraction |
| CFC-11 (HT, LS) |
| CFC-12 (HT, LS) |
| NO (HS&M) |
| NO2 Mole Fraction |
| N2O (HT, LS, HS&M) |
| HNO3 (HT, LS, HS&M) |
| HCl (HT, LS, HS&M) |
| ClONO2 (HT, LS, HS&M) |
| C2H2 (HT) |
| C2H6 (HT, LS) |
| HCFC-22 (HT, LS) |
| N2O5 (LS, HS&M) |
| SF6 (HT, LS) |
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Instrument Missions
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