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Satellite Missions

Meteor 3m

Russia.

Satellite Mission: Provide meteorological measurements.

NASA Instruments:

• EOS SAGE III (1999) for continuing long-term measurements of aerosols and ozone from the SAGE I and II missions.
• TOMS (2000) for continuing record of total ozone measurements

Odin (1998)

Sweden-Canada.

Satellite Mission: Measure ozone, some radicals, and source gases.

Envisat (1999)

European Space Agency.

Satellite Mission: Measure ozone, aerosols, chlorine and nitrogen source gases, reservoirs, and some radicals.

Stratospheric Instruments:

• Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)
• Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS)
• Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY)

Chem (2002)

NASA EOS.

Satellite Mission: Measure ozone, aerosols, chlorine, nitrogen, and hydrogen source gases, radicals, and reservoirs.

Instruments:

• EOS Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS)
• High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS)
• Tropospheric Emission Sounder (TES)
• Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) (Netherlands)

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Last modified: March 08, 2017