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Contents
Observing the atmosphere by infrared limb scanning | 2 |
The mean circulation and totalexposure constituents vs localre laxation constituents | 3 |
Definitions of mean and the threedimensional diabatic mass circula | 4 |
Mean circulation dymanics downward control and stratospheretro posphere exchange | 5 |
The polar cooling thoughtexperiment | 6 |
Capabilities | 7 |
The origin of the torque | 8 |
Rossbywave propagation and breaking and the effect on I | 9 |
ers and the failure of the eddydiffusivity hypothesis | 357 |
173 | 362 |
the conservation and impermeability properties and the concept of generalized PV rearrangement | 366 |
the challenge for EOS | 372 |
its role in trans port and tropospherestratosphere coupling 1 Introduction | 387 |
A simple box model | 388 |
The nature of the circulation of the middle atmosphere | 390 |
Basic dynamical equations | 392 |
MARELLI The use of EOS for studies of atmospheric physics | 35 |
THE TROPOSPHERE | 55 |
Chemical models | 70 |
J R DRUMMOND Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere | 77 |
Carbon dioxide | 78 |
The MOPITT instrument | 83 |
MOPITT program status | 91 |
Specific TES goals | 104 |
Spatial coverage | 111 |
F MOLTENI Atmospheric lowfrequency variability and the role | 125 |
65 | 149 |
Conclusions | 155 |
investigation of atmospheric dynamics and transport from Eos 1 Introduction 2 Measurement objectives 3 Measurement approach 31 | 159 |
125 | 177 |
Conclusions | 177 |
Airsea interactions and hydrology over the tropical oceans | 177 |
R RIZZI and M M BONZAGNI Principles of remote sensing of atmo | 177 |
Spectral distribution of radiance leaving the atmosphere | 180 |
Integration over frequency | 192 |
The use of satellite data in numerical weather prediction | 199 |
A SLINGO Satellite observations of clouds for climate studies | 209 |
Main atmospheric forcings on different spatial scales | 233 |
erties from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | 253 |
Y YAMAGUCHI I SATO and H TSU ITIR design concept and sci | 290 |
Cloud studies | 307 |
THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE | 313 |
pag | 319 |
Nitrous oxide | 330 |
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91 | 337 |
Eddydriven crosstropopause transport | 398 |
Global exchange rates | 400 |
Nitrogen oxides | 401 |
Water vapor exchange | 403 |
G VISCONTI F SASSI and G PITARI Transport in the middle atmo sphere from satellite data Introduction | 407 |
Twodimensional models of the stratosphere | 408 |
Use of satellite data 21 Residual circulation 22 Eddy coefficients 23 Trajectory calculation and prognostic models Conclusions | 411 |
formations for atmospheric measurements 1 Introduction | 419 |
Conservative coordinates | 422 |
Measurements in q 0space 4 Reconstruction of constituent fields 5 Degenerate coordinates 6 Summary 419 420 | 423 |
Wind measurements pag | 433 |
Sulfur | 449 |
459 | 458 |
Instrument description | 459 |
Conclusion | 461 |
S A ISAKSEN lower stratosphere 1 Introduction | 463 |
Formation of the ozone layer | 465 |
Observed ozone changes | 468 |
Increases in chlorine levels in the stratosphere 5 Formation of reservoir species 6 Heterogeneous chemistry | 470 |
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RUSSELL III The Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far Infrared Emission Experiment SAFIRE 1 Science background and goals | 481 |
Experiment measurement approach | 483 |
J W WATERS Submillimeter heterodyne spectroscopy and remote sensing of the upper atmosphere 1 Introduction | 491 |
Stratospheric molecules and submillimeter measurement possibili ties | 497 |
The UARS Microwave Limb Sounder | 512 |
The EOS Microwave Limb Sounder | 514 |
Appendix B Theory | 551 |
FORTRAN code for absorption coefficients | 566 |
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