Abstract
During the June 2008 Teresina Campaign MIPAS is operated in sideways-viewing
mode whenever this gives coverage over the balloon launch site in Brazil.
From earlier sideways-viewing operations in 'Aircraft Emission' mode it was
discovered that there was a discrepancy between the planned tangent
altitudes and those recorded in the L1B data, and a further discrepancy
between these and the altitude determined from the retrieved tangent
pressure. Here a similar analysis is performed for RR27 (nominal altitude
scan) used for sideways-viewing data acquired on 7th June 2008. The actual
pointing appears to be ~1km higher than planned, despite being reported in
the L1B as ~3km lower than planned. These results are consistent with the
earlier findings during AE mode observations. Also, the
latitudinally-varying altitude offset appears to be correctly implemented
for sideways-viewing observations.
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Papers selected from the ACPD website
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- "Mesospheric N2O enhancements as observed by MIPAS on Envisat during the polar winters in 2002-2004"
- B. Funke et al (published 03 Jun 2008, open until 29 Jul 2008)
- Introduced by LMV.
- "Nitric acid in the stratosphere based on Odin observations from
2001 to 2007 - Part 1: A global climatology"
- J. Urban et al (published 26 May 2008, open until 21 Jul 2008)
- Comments being collected by JW.
- "4D-Var Assimilation of MIPAS chemical observations: ozone and nitrogen dioxide analyses"
- Q. Errera et al (published 22 Apr 2008, open until 18 Jun 2008)
- Comments were collected by LMV but discussion closed before anything
submitted.
Other MIPAS-related papers in the
Open Discussion phase, which may be adopted at a future meeting
- [none at present]
