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A triple-etalon Fabry-Perot interferometer has been flown from a high altitude balloon platform as part of a development programme to implement a suggestion that stratospheric winds could be measured from a suitable spaceborne high resolution interferometer by observing the Doppler shifts of absorption lines in the visible light spectrum of sunlight backscattered (by Rayleigh or Mie scattering) from the Earth's atmosphere.
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Rees et al. (1982) studied this question.
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