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The Greenhouse Gas Measurements Program supports the following projects in NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory. These projects are conducted by the Sensor Science Division, the Time and Frequency Division, and the Quantum Electronics and Photonics Division.

Satellite Sensor Calibration

Applied Spectroradiometry and Imaging Metrology
	Lunar Spectral Irradiance and Radiance (LUSI)Ground Validation and Remote Sensing

Building the Next Generation Reference Reflectometer
	Hyperspectral Image ProjectorSolar Measurements

Radiometric and Photometric Aperture Area Measurements
	Synchrotron Radiation-Based Calibrations for Space Weather PredictionGreenhouse Gas Detection and Optical Measurements

Smoke Stack Flow Simulator
	NIST "Combs" the Atmosphere to Measure Greenhouse Gases
	Optical Frequency Measurements
	Differential Absorption LIDAR for the Detection and Quantification of Greenhouse Gases
	Progress and Promise in DIAL LIDAR
  Environment and Greenhouse gas measurements

    
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