The Atmospheric Limb Sounding Satellite (ALiSS)
- Paper number
IAC-14,B1,1,9,x27191
- Coauthor
Mr. Thomas Piekutowski, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
- Coauthor
Dr. Christopher Sioris, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Coauthor
Mr. Christer Nilsson, Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), Sweden
- Coauthor
Prof. Doug Degenstein, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Coauthor
Prof. Donal Murtagh, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Coauthor
Dr. Brian Solheim, Center for Research in Earth and Space Science (CRESS), Canada
- Coauthor
Mr. Fredrik von Schéele, Omnisys Instruments Stockholm, Sweden
- Coauthor
Mr. Chris McLinden, Environment Canada, Canada
- Coauthor
Dr. Yves Rochon, Environment Canada, Canada
- Coauthor
Dr. Godelieve Deblonde, Environment Canada, Canada
- Coauthor
Dr. Josep Aparicio, Environment Canada, Canada
- Coauthor
Mr. Marko Adamovic, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
- Year
2014
- Abstract
The Atmospheric Limb Sounding Satellite (ALiSS) is a joint Canadian-Swedish concept that is currently under study by agencies, industrial partners and academic institutions in both countries. ALiSS has at its core four atmospheric limb remote sensing instruments. Three of these have space heritage and are: the Canadian designed Atmospheric Tomography System (CATS) that is a derivative of the highly successful Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System (OSIRIS) instrument; the Swedish designed STEAMR radiometer that is a follow on instrument to the Sub-millimeter, Millimeter Radiometer (SMR) that currently operates with OSIRIS on Odin and a GPS Radio Occultation instrument. The fourth instrument, also Canadian, is the Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water (SHOW). SHOW is novel technology that will measure water vapour profiles. Among other things the ALiSS package will deliver very high spatial resolution atmospheric composition (O3, H2O, NO2, HNO3, aerosol, others...) measurements within the extremely important UTLS region for chemistry and climate studies. One application would be using these within data assimilation systems in order to better monitor and predict these quantities. Also, the heritage of these instruments implies the ALiSS measurements will be extremely valuable in the continuation of climate quality, satellite based time series of important constituents such as stratospheric aerosols, nitrogen dioxide, bromine monoxide and ozone. This talk will outline the ALiSS concept and the utility of the measurements.
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