“…We installed a Bruker IFS-120M highresolution Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) in the observation hut at Syowa Station in March 2007. This was the third high-resolution FTIR site in Antarctica in operation after the USA's South Pole Station (90.0 • S) (Goldman et al, 1983Murcray et al, 1987), the USA's Mc-Murdo Station, and New Zealand's Arrival Heights facility at the Scott Base station (77.8 • S, 166.7 • E) (Farmer et al, 1987;Murcray et al, 1989;Kreher et al, 1996;Wood et al, 2002. The IFS-120M FTIR has a wavenumber resolution of 0.0035 cm −1 , with two liquid-nitrogen-cooled detectors (with InSb and HgCdTe covering the frequency ranges 2000-5000 and 700-1300 cm −1 , respectively) with six optical filters, and is fed by an external solar tracking system.…”