Seminar Ozean, Eis, Atmosphäre
Universität Bremen, Gebäude NW1, Raum N3380
Termin: 16.04.2002
Referent/in: Heinrich Bovensmann,
Institut für Umweltphysik
Universität Bremen, Bremen
Title: SCIAMACHY in orbit for 75 days
On 1st of March 2002 ENVISAT with SCIAMACHY on-board was launched
succesfully. ENVISAT flies in a sun synchronous polar orbit and
SCIAMACHY is a passive remote sensing instrument, which measures solar
back scattered and reflected light from the atmosphere in nadir and limb
viewing geometries during the majority of an orbit. In addition solar
and lunar occultation measurements will be performed. Measurements are
made simultaneously in eight spectral channels covering the spectral
region between 220 and 2400 nm.
After a few weeks of outgassing SCIAMACHY was switched on successfully.
Then a complex procedure starts to check out the instrument in orbit and
tune it to the optimum performance. First solar and atmospheric spectra
were already taken at the begin of April.
The talk will give an overview of the status of SCIAMACHY in orbit and
will give an outlook on the availability of first data products.