Kelly Chance

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

     office:  Atomic and Molecular Physics Division
              60 Garden Street
              Room P-252
              Mail stop 50
              Cambridge, MA  02138-1516

      phone:  +1-617-495-7389
        fax:  +1-617-495-5439
     e-mail:  kchance@cfa.harvard.edu

Research Interests

Molecular spectroscopy, structure and dynamics and their application to atmospheric studies, including laboratory spectroscopy and balloon-, aircraft- and satellite-borne measurements of the earth's atmosphere; atmospheric composition and radiative transfer; chemical astrophysics.

Links Related to my Atmospheric Research

• Please visit our website giving details about our various programs in measurements of atmospheric composition.
• The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's FIRS-2 Far Infrared balloon (and airplane) borne spectrometer. FIRS-2 currently measures atmospheric OH, HO2, H2O2, H2O, O3, HF, HCl, HBr, HOCl, HOBr, ClONO2, NO2, N2O, HNO3, HO2NO2, N2O5, CCl4, CFC-11, CFC-12, CH3Cl, HCFC-22, OCS, C2H6, C3H6O, HCN, SF6, CH4, and CO2 (used for pressure and temperature determination). It addresses the partitioning of stratospheric hydrogen, nitrogen, and chlorine species, as well as aspects of atmospheric transport.
• The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite, launched in 1995, is described in home pages at ESA, at the DFD (German Aerospace Center), and at the ife (U. Bremen). Our tropospheric chemistry studies are carried out in collaboration with modelers from Atmospheric Sciences at Harvard and with scientists from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch at NASA/GSFC.
• The SCIAMACHY instrument on the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite (2000 launch) is described in home pages at ESA, at the DFD (German Aerospace Center), and at the ife (U. Bremen).
• The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) is described at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's TOMS Home Page.
• The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on EOS Aura: NASA OMI Home Page.
• The Eumetsat's METOP satellites will carry GOME-2 instruments, as described by ESA.

Teaching: Earth and Planetary Sciences 238 "Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer of Atmospheres."

Atmospheric Publications by myself and CfA colleagues.

Atomic and Molecular Physics Division

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics