Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2303-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2303-2016
Research article
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25 May 2016
Research article |  | 25 May 2016

Addition of a channel for XCO observations to a portable FTIR spectrometer for greenhouse gas measurements

Frank Hase, Matthias Frey, Matthäus Kiel, Thomas Blumenstock, Roland Harig, Axel Keens, and Johannes Orphal

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We describe an extension of a portable FTIR (Fourier transform infrafed) spectrometer dedicated to the measurement of column-averaged abundances of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The measurement principle is based on a spectrally resolved solar absorption observation (trace gas amounts are deduced from the strength of near-infrared absorption bands). The dual-channel set-up presented here allows co-observing CO while maintaining the highly favourable characteristics of the original device.