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SCIAMACHY, the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for
Atmospheric CHar tographY, is a passive sensor for exploring the
Earth's atmosphere. It is part of the payload of the European Earth
Observation mission ENVISAT, launched on 1 March 2002. SCIAMACHY
observes absorption spectra of molecules from the UV (214 nm) to
the short-wave infrared wavelength range (2386 nm) and derives the
atmospheric composition - trace gases, aerosols, clouds - from
these measurements. Having meanwhile successfully monitored and
explored the Earth's atmosphere for more than 8 years, new and
exciting insights into the Earth-atmosphere system are obtained.
The provided global data sets do not only cover greenhouse gases
and pollutants in the troposphere or the ozone chemistry in the
stratosphere but even reach up to the mesosphere and lower
thermosphere. They contribute significantly to atmospheric physics
and chemistry as well as climate change research. SCIAMACHY is one
of the major current Earth Observation undertakings of Germany, The
Netherlands and Belgium, accomplished in cooperation with the
European Space Agency (ESA). Many scientific groups at various
institutes in Europe and abroad were and are actively involved in
the analysis of the data. This book is a comprehensive summary
describing the entire SCIAMACHY mission - from the very first ideas
to the current results. It illustrates how the measurements are
performed, how the trace gas concentrations are derived from the
measured spectra and how the unique data sets are used to improve
our understanding of the changing Earth's atmosphere. The targeted
readership is not only the existing and potentially new SCIAMACHY
data users from undergraduate student level up to researchers new
in the fields of atmospheric chemistry and remote sensing, but
anyone who is keen to learn about SCIAMACHY's efforts to study the
atmosphere and its responses to both, natural phenomena and
anthropogenic effects.
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