Abstract:
This data set from the Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites
(MAPS) experiment which flew on STS-2 in November 1981 and on STS-41G
in October 1984 contains carbon monoxide (CO) values as a function of
time which can be related to longitude and latitude. MAPS on STS-2
took data on only one day but the flight on STS-41G collected data
from October 5 to October 13 (1984). In 1981, MAPS
... measured CO in two
layers, one in the middle of the troposphere and one in the upper
troposphere. In 1984, MAPS was modified to measure CO in a single
layer of the troposphere. MAPS uses a technique called gas filter
radiometery to measure CO in the infrared (IR) region of the
spectrum. Three flights of MAPS are planned with the Shuttle Radar
Laboratory (SRL), which will contain the SIR-C/X-SAR instrument,
beginning in 1994. The data for STS-2 are on two 9-track, ASCII, 1600
BPI magnetic tapes and the data for STS-41G are on 10 tapes. 
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