THE INFRARED TELLURIC ABSORPTION SPECTRUM INTRODUCTORY REPORT

Abstract

Recent work on the infrared transmission spectrum of the atmosphere of the earth is reviewed and discussed. The principal laboratory effort has been studies of absorption bands of CO2, H2O, CO, CH4, N2O, and O3 in (synthetic) or simulated atmospheres, in which nitrogen or oxygen is used as the foreign gas under controlled conditions of concentration, pressure and path length. Some recent open air studies from balloons and high altitude aircraft are described, and the principal techniques of estimating open air slant path transmission from the laboratory data are described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0444660

Entities

People

  • J. N. Howard
  • J. S. Garing

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Absorption Spectra
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Coefficients
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Geography
  • High Altitude
  • High Resolution
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Spectroscopy
  • United States

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.