Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net 1867-8610 2 2 2009 10.5194/amtd-2-825-2009 http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/825/2009/ http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/825/2009/amtd-2-825-2009.html http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/825/2009/amtd-2-825-2009.pdf 825 856 2009-03-17 New perspectives on gravity wave remote sensing by spaceborne infrared limb imaging P. Preusse p.preusse@fz-juelich.de S. Schroeder L. Hoffmann M. Ern F. Friedl-Vallon H. Oelhaf H. Fischer M. Riese Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere (ICG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, \newline Karlsruhe, Germany Gravity wave (GW) remote sensing from space now has reached a stage of maturity that some first confinements for GW modeling can be deduced. 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