UK-South Africa Partnership : EO for Atmospheric Composition Science
Climate change mitigation, and air quality (AQ) improvement are two inter-related pressing global challenges for which high quality, trustable Earth...
Atmospheric sensing Living Lab
The Spectroscopy Group has established a new facility integral to its R&D program in atmospheric sensing instrumentation and data analysis:...
Fiducial reference measurements for greenhouse gases (FRM4GHG)
In partnership with 6 institutes (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, University of Bremen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen,...
SOLSTICE
The SOLSTICE mission (Solar Occultation Limb Sounding Transformative instruments for Climate Exploration) aims to demonstrate for the first time accurate...
Harwell TCCON – 3 years of GHG measurements
September 2023, the Harwell TCCON observatory has reached three years of operational measurements. The observatory was accredited in September 2020...
Open path near IR laser dispersion spectrometer for methane monitoring
Monitoring methane emissions is essential to develop accountable, trusted greenhouse gas emission mitigation strategy. Based on its expertise in laser...
CubeSats for the Monitoring of Atmospheric Processes – CubeMAP
Earth is changing at an unprecedented pace. One of the most pressing global issues faced by humankind relates to climate...
ASPIC – Advanced Spectroscopy for improved characterisation of the near-Infrared water vapour Continuum
In collaboration with the University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, the RAL Space Spectroscopy Group works on a four year...
Halocarbon reference spectroscopy
In collaboration with NCEO and University of Leicester, the High-Resolution Spectroscopy Facility undertake laboratory experiments on halocarbon reference spectroscopy to...
CO2 Laser Heterodyne Radiometer deployment to the Finnish Arctic for the FRM4GHG campaign
An essential component of quantifying, understanding and predicting changes in the Earth’s carbon cycle is a global measurement system of...
Towards a UK TCCON site
In collaboration with the University of Leicester and Edinburgh, the group is developing a ground based remote sensing facility for...
MISO Mission Study
Microsatellite missions have been developing rapidly over the last 5 years: 158 launched in 2014 and 212 forecasted for 2015....
Laser Heterodyne Spectro-radiometry for CO2 sounding
This project focuses on the demonstration and assessment of thermal infrared laser heterodyne spectro-radiometry for the remote sensing of carbon...
