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Doppler Wind and Temperature Sounder:A breakthrough technique

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Larry Gordley, GATS Inc.

Dave Fritts, GATS Inc.

Tom Marshall, GATS Inc.

DWTS Instrument OverviewSpecifications:• Mass – 8 kg• Power – 12 W• Volume ~36x23x22 cm • Data rate < 30 kbps with low alt wind • Three 5.0 cm aperture thermal IR cameras

NO (hi alt) 1829 – 1873 wn13CO2 (mid alt) 2258 – 2282 wn,

N2O (for low alt wind) 2120 – 2160 wn• Static limb viewing, 20° FOV at velocity normal • T, V, N2O and 13CO2 mixing ratios, VER (NO and CO2)

Single telescope two-channel design above, hasevolved to three independent cameras, below.

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Temperature

Measures Low Pressure Doppler Broadened Emission

Line Width is proportional to square root of kinetic temperature

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Emission lines are typically a few thousandths of a wavenumber wide, requiring optical resolving powers of 100,000 or more to measure.

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Doppler Shift Measurements

Broadband emission will not detect Doppler shift, nor will spectra measurements, unless there is a zero shift reference

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DWTS “Notch” filter Approach

By viewing through a sample of the emitting gas, a filter is produced that causes a drop in signal during the Doppler

Integration Pass (DIP) through the zero shift position

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DIP width is proportional to square root of cell temperature

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Multi-line Effect

The emission lines that match the corresponding cell gas lines (i.e.

“notch” filters), are scanned simultaneously, producing a DIP signal consistent with the total

multi-line emission. The DIP width is the same as the single line DIP.

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Orbit Implementation

By imaging the limb, normal to the spacecraft (SC) velocity vector, air

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Observations Through Limb Atmospheric Volume

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Finite Line-of-Sight (LOS) wind will change the zero shift position.

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The “Shift/Angle” Scale

Spectrally close lines (such as Lambda doublets for nitric oxide)

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The AT wind stretches or contracts the “shift/angle”

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Measurement Systems

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Current Measurement Systems

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Typically a narrow slit, observing at a 45° degree angle to the spacecraft velocity vector, creates a spectrum that is used to deduce LOS Wind. The slit observations

are averaged from 150 km to sometimes over 700 km to obtain required S/N, producing an average wind over those same along-track distances.

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Measurement Systems

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DWTS Measurement SystemAs the atmospheric limb air passes through the DWTS FOV, it is observed with 10 km resolution and at 140 different Doppler shifts. This provides the information necessary to infer profiles of wind and temperature (depicted by colored air emerging from the FOV) at a 7 km along-track

spacing with a 10 km along-track resolution.

T = Temperature, W1 – One Vector Wind, W2 – Two Vector Wind

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Summary

DWTS uses Gas Filter Correlation Radiometry and a simple, moderately cooled, static MIR camera to measure Wind and Temperature

from cloud-top to over 200 km day and night.

Considering cost, global coverage, continuity, spatial resolution, diurnal

capability, altitude range and simultaneity of Wind and Temperature, DWTS is projected to advance our capability of remotely sensing

upper atmosphere wind and temperature by more than 3 orders of magnitude.

GATS Inc.11864 Canon Blvd., Suite 101Newport News, VA 23606 USAwww.gats-inc.com

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Larry Gordley [email protected]

Dave Fritts [email protected]

Tom Marshall [email protected]

Doppler wind and temperature sounder: new approach using gas filter radiometry

Larry L. Gordley and Benjamin T. Marshall, “Doppler wind and temperature sounder: new approach using gas filter radiometry”, J. Appl. Remote Sens. 5, 053570 (2011); doi:10.1117/1.3666048.

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