Spatial heterodyne observations of water (SHOW) from a high-altitude airplane: characterization, performance, and first results

Langille, Jeffery; Letros, Daniel; Bourassa, Adam; Solheim, Brian; Degenstein, Doug; Dupont, Fabien; Zawada, Daniel; Lloyd, Nick D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-431-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-431-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-431-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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25 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 25 Jan 2019

Spatial heterodyne observations of water (SHOW) from a high-altitude airplane: characterization, performance, and first results

Jeffery Langille, Daniel Letros, Adam Bourassa, Brian Solheim, Doug Degenstein, Fabien Dupont, Daniel Zawada, and Nick D. Lloyd

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Author response to Referee #1', Jeffery Langille, 20 Nov 2018
RC2: 'anonymous review', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Author response to Referee #3', Jeffery Langille, 20 Nov 2018
RC3: 'Review of “Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water (SHOW) from a high altitude airplane: Characterization, performance and first results by Langille et. al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Sep 2018
- AC3: 'Author response to Referee #2', Jeffery Langille, 20 Nov 2018

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AR by Jeffery Langille on behalf of the Authors (29 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Dec 2018) by John Worden

Short summary

The SHOW instrument is a prototype satellite concept that is being developed through collaboration between the University of Saskatchewan, the Canadian Space Agency, and ABB Inc. to provide high vertical resolution (< 200 m) measurements of UTLS water vapour with < 1 ppm accuracy. This paper presents suborbital measurements obtained during a demonstration flight aboard NASA's ER-2 aircraft. These measurements are validated through a comparison with coincident radiosonde measurements.