CALIPSO
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
The CALIPSO mission (formerly known as PICASSO-CENA) science objective is to collect new information on clouds and aerosols from an orbiting platform to allow improved understanding of climate and climate change.
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HALOE
HALogen Occultation Experiment
The Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) was launched on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) spacecraft September 12, 1991, and after a period of outgassing, it began science observations October 11.
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HALOE V20
Halogen Occultation Experiment V20 Algorithm Development
The goal of the HALOE V20 algorithm improvements is to enhance our understanding of the interaction of transport and chemistry in the middle to lower atmosphere.
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Insitu Gas and Aerosol
Insitu Gas and Aerosol Missions
GATS contributes to mission planning and execution of airborne and ground based experiments to measure atmospheric trace gaseous and aerosol chemical species during flight missions and from static jet engine exhaust in the following experiments.
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LIMS/MASDA
Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
The objective of the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) experiment was to map the vertical profiles of temperature and the concentration of ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, and nitric acid in the lower to middle stratosphere range, with extension to the stratopause
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Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), otherwise known as polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), form near 82 km altitude at high latitudes during summer in both hemispheres, and can be viewed with the naked eye. When viewed from the ground, NLCs appear in reflected sunlight against the dark twilight sky.
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SABER
Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry
SABER's mission is to make measurements of temperature, ozone, carbon dioxide, water vapor and other trace gases to learn more about the complex relation of energy transfer between the upper and lower atmosphere.
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SAGE III
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
The mission is to enhance our understanding of natural and human derived atmospheric processes by providing accurate long-term measurements of the vertical structure of aerosols, ozone, water vapor, and other important trace gases in the upper troposphere and stratosphere.
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SOFIE
Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment
SOFIE is one of three instruments onboard the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite. The objective of AIM is to study polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) and the environment in which they form.
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SOSST
Solar Occultation Satellite Science Team
Satellite occultation experiments play an important role in enhancing our understanding of complex atmospheric processes. Over the past 25 years, satellite occultation missions have led to major discoveries on ozone depletion, transport processes, the impact of volcanic eruptions and the distribution of polar stratospheric clouds.
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