The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) is an advanced Fourier Transform Infra Red (FTIR) spectrometer specially tailored to the operation on a stratospheric balloon gondola (MIPAS-B) and on a stratospheric aircraft (MIPAS-STR). Equipped with suitable subsystems, MIPAS allows precise limb emission sounding of chemical constituents related to the stratospheric ozone problem and to the greenhouse effect. This method is appropriate to obtain vertical profiles of ozone and a considerable number of key radicals (NO, NO2), reservoir species (HNO3, N2O5, ClONO2, and HO2NO2) as well as source gases (CH4, N2O, H2O, CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-22, CCl4, CF4, C2H6, and SF6) simultaneously, with an altitude resolution of 2 to 3 km.
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