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  The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) MIPAS is a Fourier transform spectrometer for the detection of limb emission spectra in the middle and upper atmosphere. It observes a wide spectral interval throughout the mid infrared with high spectral resolution. Operating in a wavelength range from 4.15 microns to 14.6 microns, MIPAS detects and spectrally resolves a large number of emission features of atmospheric minor constituents playing a major role in atmospheric chemistry. Due to its spectral resolution capabilities and low-noise performance, the detected features can be spectroscopically identified and used as input to suitable algorithms for extracting atmospheric concentration profiles of a number of target species.
   
StatusOperational
 
TypeAtmospheric Chemistry and Temperature
 
Technical Characteristics
Accuracy Radiometric precision: 685-970cm-1: 1%, 2410 cm-1: 3%
Spatial Resolution Vertical resolution: 3km, vertical scan range 5-150km, Horizontal: 3km x 30km, Spectral resolution: 0.035 lines/cm
Swath Width 3 x 30 km
Waveband MWIR-TIR: between 4.15 and 14.6??m
 
ApplicationsAtmosphere (Ozone,Climate Change/Kyoto,Chemistry,Radiation/Temperature)
 
Related Instruments GOMEGOMOSSCIAMACHYACE-FTSGOME-2OSIRIS SABERSAGE IISAGE IIISMR
 
Latest Mission Operations     News
Software upgrade at PDHS-E (ESRIN)

A major software upgrade related to the archive facility at PDHS-E (ESRIN) is planned on Monday 23 November 2009.

Being a major upgrade, functionality will be resumed gradually in order to ensure proper monitoring.

The following table reports the expected PDHS-E services unavailability details:

SERVICE Stop Resume
ENVISAT NRT processing and dissemination Mon 23 November 2009 09:00 CET Mon 23 November 2009 17:00 CET
ENVISAT on request processing and dissemination Mon 23 November 2009 09:00 CET Tue 24 November 2009 09:00 CET
ERS on request processing and dissemination Mon 23 November 2009 09:00 CET Tue 24 November 2009 09:00 CET
SPOT on request processing and dissemination Mon 23 November 2009 09:00 CET Tue 24 November 2009 09:00 CET
 
Latest Data Product MIPAS Localized calibrated emission spectra
 
Available Resources
Type
Access
GlossaryTechnical DocumentHTML
ENVISAT MIPAS An Instrument for Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Research Special PublicationOrder
MIPAS - An ENVISAT Instrument for Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate ResearchESA BulletinDownload
MIPAS Products SpecificationsProduct DocumentDownload
ACVE-3 WorkshopProceedingsHTML
Annex A - Product Data ConventionsProduct DocumentDownload
Envisat in depth
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