Profilers/Sounders
type: Concept

LIMS
type: Concept
in scheme: instruments
definition: The objective of the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) experiment was to map the vertical profiles of temperature and the concentration of ozone, water vapour, nitrogen dioxide, and nitric acid in the lower to middle stratosphere range, with extension to the stratopause for water vapour and into the lower mesosphere for temperature and ozone. This experiment was a follow-on to the Limb Radiance Inversion Radiometer (LRIR) flown on Nimbus-6. The LIMS mapped vertical profiles of thermal IR emission coming from the horizon in six bands of CO2N, CO2, O3, HNO3, H2O, and NO2. Additional information available at "http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/home/" [Summary provided by the British Atmospheric Data Centre] Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: LIMS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Passive Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Profilers/Sounders Short_Name: LIMS Long_Name: Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: NIMBUS-7 End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Infrared > Thermal Number_Channels: 6 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 6.2 µm, 6.3 µm, 9.6 µm, 11.3 µm, two at 15 µm End_Group Online_Resource: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/guides/GSFC/guide/LIMS_dataset.gd.shtml Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Start_Date: 1978-10-25 Instrument_Stop_Date: 1979-05-28 Instrument_Owner: NASA End_Group End_Group