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Preliminary results of a space experiment using the IKFS-2 infrared sounder (Meteor-M2 satellite) showed high-quality of measurements of spectra of the outgoing thermal radiation of the atmosphere–surface system and the adequacy of developed IR radiation atmospheric models in the 15-μm carbon gas absorption band used to recover the vertical profiles of the atmospheric temperature. Outgoing radiation spectra measured by IKFS-2 instruments make it possible to restore vertical temperature profiles with errors close to 1K in most of the 0–30 km high-altitude region, except for the lower troposphere and altitudes above 30 km, where these errors are close to 2–3K.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Asmus, Yu.M. Timofeyev, A.V. Polyakov, A.B. Uspensky, Yu.M. Golovin, F.S. Zavelevich, D.A. Kozlov, A.N. Rublev, A.V. Kukharsky, V.P. Pyatkin, E.V. Rusin, 2017, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 487–492.
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Asmus, V.V., Timofeyev, Y.M., Polyakov, A.V. et al. Atmospheric temperature sounding with the Fourier spectrometer. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 53, 428–432 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433817040028
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