Measurements and Applications
Measures global distributions of ozone and species of importance for ozone chemistry ClO, HNO3, H2O, N2O, (HO2, H2O2). Measures temperature in the height range 15 - 100 km.
Full Name
Submillimetre Radiometer
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Atmospheric chemistry 
Geometry
Instrument Technology
Limb-scanning MW spectrometer
Sampling
Other
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
Resolution
Vertical resolution 1.5 - 3 km, along track 600 km
Swath
Altitudes of 5 - 100 km
Accuracy
2 - 40% depending on species and altitude
Waveband
Microwave: 118.7 GHz + 4 bands in the region 480 - 580 GHz: Tuneable measures 2 - 3 x 1 GHz regions at a time; ~0.1 cm - ~0.3 cm
| FIR (~15.0 µm - ~0.1 cm) |
| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
Odin - Odin (2001 - 2025) |