Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-989-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-989-2017
Research article
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13 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 13 Mar 2017

Technical note: Sensitivity of instrumental line shape monitoring for the ground-based high-resolution FTIR spectrometer with respect to different optical attenuators

Youwen Sun, Mathias Palm, Christine Weinzierl, Christof Petri, Justus Notholt, Yuting Wang, and Cheng Liu

Data sets

Analysis of the instrumental line shape of high-resolution Fourier transform IR spectrometers with gas cell measurements and new retrieval software (http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/897.php) F. Hase, T. Blumenstock, and C. Paton-Walsh https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.38.003417

Short summary
We first design experiments to investigate the sensitivity of ILS (instrumental line shape) monitoring for a high-resolution FTIR spectrometer within the TCCON and NDACC networks with respect to different optical attenuators. The ILS characteristics derived from lamp and sun spectra are in good agreement. A potential strategy to adapt incident intensity of a detector was deduced.