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A Radiometric Calibration System for the ISAMS Remote Sounding Instrument

T J Nightingale and J Crawford

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The Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS), to be flown on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), will make radiometric measurements of thermal emission by a number of atmospheric gases in the intermediate (4,6 μm to 16,3 μm) infrared spectral region. In addition to relative spectral and field-of-view calibrations, an absolute radiometric determination of the integrated spectral throughput has been made using a system of two reference and one intermediate cryogenic black-body targets. The cold reference and intermediate targets were maintained at 77 K and the variable reference target could be controlled in small steps over the range 77 K to 320 K. Calculated emissivities of order ε = 0,9998 could be realized for the large-aperture reference target with a structure of concentric V-grooves with diffusely emitting surfaces.


PACS

07.60.Dq Photometers, radiometers, and colorimeters

44.40.+a Thermal radiation

06.20.F- Units and standards

07.20.Dt Thermometers

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 3 (1991)



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