Abstract
Absorption spectroscopy with near-infrared telecommunication laser diodes is a very convenient technique to measure in situ methane and water vapor in both the troposphere and the lower stratosphere (LS) and thereby to address many topics in the science of the atmosphere. This technique offers a high temporal resolution that ranges from 10 ms to 1 s, a precision error in the concentration retrieval of within a few percents and a dynamic range for the measurements of four orders of magnitude. A balloon-borne near-infrared diode laser spectrometer is described that provides simultaneous in situ methane (in the 1.65-μm region) and water vapor (in the 1.39-μm region) measurements at 1 s intervals. Tropospheric and stratospheric vertical concentration profiles of methane and water vapor are reported.
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