York University

$123,494.00 CAD

≈ 19 months of average Canadian pay

Department: Canadian Space Agency
Program: Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Recipient country: Canada
Fiscal year: 2013-2014
Agreement period: March 26, 2014 – —
Reference: csa-asc:003-2013-2014-Q4-01900

Published purpose

The objectives of the project are: 1) Test a prototype SHOW instrument for deployment on a high altitude balloon platform; 2) Perform atmospheric limb observations with SHOW instrument from a stratospheric balloon platform; 3) Demonstrate the instrument capability for stratospheric water vapour profile retrieval employing the l'University of Saskatchewan retrieval code and radiative transfer model (SASKTRAN) updated for H2O limb scatter retrievals; 4) Increase the instrument Technology Readiness Level (TRL).

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