Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 28, Issue 8, 1678(2020)

Instrument design and forward modeling of near-space wind and temperature sensing interferometer

HE Wei-wei1,*... WU Kui-jun2, FU Di3, WANG Hou-mao4 and LI Juan3 |Show fewer author(s)
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    Wind and temperature measurements in near-space (20-100 km) play a prominent part in the development of atmospheric physics and space science, which are of considerable academic and application value. The atmospheric wind and temperature fields in the stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere (40-80 km) can be simultaneously detected using the wide-angle Michelson interferometer with the radiation source observation of the limb-viewing O2(a1Δg) airglow near 1.27 μm. Hence, a near-space wind and temperature sensing interferometer was designed in this study, and its modeling and forward simulation were conducted. Based on the characteristics of the radiation spectrum and principle of spectral line selection, two sets of different intensity lines were employed for wind and temperature detection.The weak group was used for low altitude measurement to avoid the influence of self absorption on the measurement results; the strong line was used for high altitude detection to achieve high measurement accuracy. The forward model was composed of the system parameters of atmosphere radiation transmission module, Michelson interferometer module, filter module, optical system, sensor array, and infrared focal plane. Through forward modeling, the limb-viewing image was obtained, and the uncertainty of wind velocity and temperature measurement was analyzed. The numerical simulation results show that the wind measurement accuracy is 1-3 m/s and temperature measurement accuracy is 1-3 K in the height range of 40-80 km, which meet the requirements of wind temperature detection accuracy in adjacent space.

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    HE Wei-wei, WU Kui-jun, FU Di, WANG Hou-mao, LI Juan. Instrument design and forward modeling of near-space wind and temperature sensing interferometer[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2020, 28(8): 1678

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    Received: Nov. 4, 2019

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 2, 2020

    The Author Email: Wei-wei HE (heweiwei@wic.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/ope.20202808.1678

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