Measurement of nighttime stratospheric N2O5 from infrared emission spectra
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 15 (11) , 1177-1180
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl015i011p01177
Abstract
The mixing ratio profile of N2O5 has been inferred from high‐resolution emission spectra obtained with a balloon‐borne Fourier spectrometer (SIRIS). The observations were taken for the period from midnight to predawn on September 16, 1986 at 32° N latitude. The inferred volume mixing ratio from nighttime average spectra has a peak of ∼ 1.8 × 10−9 in the 32‐35 altitude range. The inferred mixing ratio is generally less than the theoretical predictions from a 1‐D model.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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