Articles | Volume 10, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2413-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2413-2017
Research article
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05 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 05 Jul 2017

Improved pointing information for SCIAMACHY from in-flight measurements of the viewing directions towards sun and moon

Klaus Bramstedt, Thomas C. Stone, Manfred Gottwald, Stefan Noël, Heinrich Bovensmann, and John P. Burrows

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The satellite instrument SCIAMACHY on board the ESA's platform Envisat (2002–2012) performed observations of the Earth's atmosphere. Using sun and moon observations of the instrument itself, we derived a set of correction parameters for the determination of the viewing directions of the instrument. From this work, all vertical profiles of atmospheric parameters from SCIAMACHY's limb and occultation measurements will be improved by a more accurate altitude information.