Viewing the ISAMS and CLAES Instruments on UARS

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Viewing the ISAMS and CLAES Instruments on UARS

Key to understanding the chlorine chemistry in the polar stratosphere is the measurement of polar stratospheric clouds, chlorine monoxide, and the reservoir gas chlorine nitrate. Polar stratospheric clouds are seen by the Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder, ISAMS, and chlorine nitrate has been measured by the Cryogen Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer, CLAES. Both ISAMS and CLAES make measurements by looking at infrared emission from cloud particles and trace gases.

Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) Instrument on UARS

Metadata

  • Sensor

    UARS/ISAMS, UARS/CLAES

  • Animation ID

    810

  • Video ID

    SVS1999-1001

  • Start Timecode

    1:02:41:14

  • End Timecode

    1:03:41:00

  • Animator

    Jesse Allen

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1999/04/09

  • Scientist

    Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Sensor

  • DLESE Subject

    Technology

  • Data Date

    None

  • Story URL

    stories/UARS/instruments.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular