NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968

NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968
Author: William R. Corliss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1971
Genre: Sounding rockets
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Sounding rockets provided the first means to carry instruments to the outermost reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. They were, indeeed, our first space vehicles. As Mr. Corliss relates in this history, in this day of satellites and deep space probes, sounding rockets remain as important to space science as ever, furnishing our most powerful means for obtaining vertical profiles of atmospheric properties. NASA continues to depend on sounding rockets for research in astronomy, meteorology, ionospheric physics, exploratory astronomy, and other disciplines.

Satellite Temperature Sounding of the Atmosphere

Satellite Temperature Sounding of the Atmosphere
Author: Robert A. McClatchey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1976
Genre: Atmosphere, Upper
ISBN:

Defense Meteorological Satellite measurements of the upwelling radiation in the sounder channels of the 15 micrometer CO2 band have been compared with calculations for a number of clear atmosphere conditions. Great care was used to ensure that complete radiosonde and rocketsonde data coincident in space and time were available. The methods of transmittance and radiance calculations are described and the results compared directly with the satellite measurements. The results indicate a systematic discrepancy in all but one channel. Calculations in general exceeded the measured radiances. (Author).