2014 journal article

Measurement of atmospheric oxygen using long-path supercontinuum absorption spectroscopy

JOURNAL OF APPLIED REMOTE SENSING, 8.

By: D. Brown *, A. Brown*, P. Edwards*, Z. Liu * & C. Philbrick n

author keywords: atmospheric species concentrations; supercontinuum laser; atmospheric differential absorption; differential absorption lidar; remote sensing
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Added: August 6, 2018

Abstract The concentration of atmospheric oxygen is measured over a 540-m path using supercontinuum absorption spectroscopy. The absorption data compared favorably with MODTRAN™ 5 simulations of the spectra after adjusting for the differences of index of refraction of air and matching the instrument spectral resolution, as described by the effective slit width. Good agreement with the expected atmospheric oxygen concentration is obtained using a previously developed multiwavelength maximum likelihood estimation inversion algorithm. This study demonstrates the use of the SAS technique for measuring concentrations of chemical species with fine absorption structure on long-atmospheric paths.