SCIAMACHY Validation

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The German aircraft validation activities will concentrate on missions with the Falcon aircraft operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Several flight campaigns are planned for northern high- and mid-latitudes and tropical regions. The payload will comprise

ASUR, a submillimeter wave radiometer providing stratospheric profiles of O₃, H₂O, N₂O, BrO, and ClO
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OLEX, a 4-wavelength lidar providing O₃ profiles in the lower stratosphere and information about aerosol, clouds, and PSCs in the upper troposphere and lower/middle stratosphere
a DOAS instrument capable of looking both upwards and downwards, which will enable the validation of stratospheric and tropospheric columns of O₃, NO₂, BrO, and OClO

Furthermore, the high-altitude aircraft Geophysika was proposed as a platform for SCIAMACHY validation by ESA. The payload operated by German groups will comprise several remote sensing and in-situ instruments providing information about O₃, NO₂, H₂O, N₂O, CH₄, CO₂, BrO, CO, ClO, and OClO.