Safire-a Measurements during the Esabc Campaign
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SAFIRE-A (Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere using Far InfraRed Emission – Airborne) is a Far Infrared Fourier Transform spectrometer operating onboard the M-55 Geophysica stratospheric aircraft. The spectrometer is one of the instruments participating to the scientific chemical flights of the ESABC (ENVISAT Stratospheric Aircraft and Balloon campaigns) campaigns held in July and October 2002 from Forlì (Italy). In the October campaign, SAFIRE-A measured successfully the atmospheric emission on all but one chemical flight. VMR (Volume Mixing Ratio) profiles of O3, N2O and HNO3, coming from the data measured during the flight held on the 24 th of October, are presented and compared with the results obtained by in-situ instruments during the same flight and with MIPAS/ENVISAT measurements on the same air-mass.
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