Performance Assessment of Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder-2 (SMILES-2)
Paper i proceeding, 2019

© 2019 IEEE. SMILES2 is a mission prepared for the next call-for-proposals for JAXA/ISAS M-class scientific satellite mission. It aims at scanning the atmospheric limb from 20 to 160 km above the surface at frequencies near 700 GHz and 2 THz. It could provide the temperature and composition as well as, for the first time, the horizontal wind vector above 30 km, the atomic oxygen in its ground state above 90 km, and the atmospheric density and the geomagnetic field vector near the mesopause. The mission is proposed for the 2nd time and the instrument design has been improved for accounting for the recommendations of the review committee. In this publication, we discuss the measurement performances assessed from simulations including latest results showing the mission potential for measuring the geomagnetic field between 70-110 km.

middle atmosphere

geomagnetic field

THz

remote sensing

wind

thermosphere

Författare

P. Baron

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

S. Ochiai

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Donal Murtagh

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Mikrovågs- och optisk fjärranalys

H. Sagawa

Kyoto Sangyo University

A. Saito

Kyoto University

M. Shiotani

Kyoto University

M. Suzuki

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

7556-7559 8898496

39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019
Yokohama, Japan,

Ämneskategorier

Rymd- och flygteknik

Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898496

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