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Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars

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GOMOS was first proposed in 1988 as an Announcement of Opportunity instrument dedicated to be a part of the Earth Observation Polar Platform Mission, the former name of Envisat. In 1992 it was decided that GOMOS would be developed as a
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from South Pole to North Pole. Data acquired on dark limb (night-time) are of better quality than on bright limb (day-time) because of a smaller perturbation by background light.
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are used to correct star scintillation perturbations and to determine high vertical resolution temperature profiles.
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launched 1 March 2002. It is the first space instrument dedicated to the study of the
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Global latitude coverage is obtained with up to 40 stellar occultations per
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and related species in the middle atmosphere (15 to 100 km).
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instrument
satellite
Envisat
atmosphere
occultation
ultraviolet
visible
near infrared
electromagnetic spectrum
climatology
ozone
nm
O3
NO2
NO3
aerosols
temperature
O2
H2O
photometers
orbit
European Space Agency
Official ESA GOMOS page
GOMOS page
Archived
Wayback Machine
DLR
Stub icon
space
spaceflight

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