Published April 2002
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Journal Article
An overview of the Odin atmospheric mission
- Creators
- Murtagh, Donal
- Pardo, Juan Ramon
Abstract
Odin is a 250 kg class satellite built in co-operation between Sweden, Canada, France, and Finland and launched in February 2001. It carries two instruments: a 4-band sub-millimetre radiometer used for both astronomy and atmospheric science and an optical spectrometer and infrared imaging system for purely atmospheric observations. As part of the joint mission Odin will observe the atmospheric limb for 50% of the observation time producing profiles of many species of interest in the middle atmosphere with a vertical resolution of 1-2 km. These species include, among others, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, chlorine monoxide, nitric acid, water vapour, and nitrous oxide. An overview of the mission and the planned measurements is given.
Additional Information
© 2002 NRC Canada. We thank Nik Kämpfer and colleagues (Bern University) for initial calculations of sub-millimetre spectra and Rolf Mewe and JanWijnbergen (SRON) for help with instrument requirements and sensitivity calculations during the phase-A study. The authors would also like to thank all of the dedicated and unnamed individuals who have made the Odin mission a reality. The Odin project is funded by the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Finnish technical agency Tekes, and the Centre National d'Études Spaciales (CNES) in France.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 27710
- DOI
- 10.1139/p01-157
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20111109-134435914
- Swedish National Space Board (SNSB)
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Finnish Technical agency Tekes
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) (France)
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