Validation of ACE-FTS version 3.5 NO y species profiles using correlative satellite measurements
Journal article, 2016
The ACE-FTS (Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer) instrument on the Canadian SCISAT satellite, which has been in operation for over 12 years, has the capability of deriving stratospheric profiles of many of the NOy (N + NO + NO2 + NO3 + 2 x N2O5 + HNO3 + HNO4 + ClONO2 + BrONO2) species. Version 2.2 of ACE-FTS NO, NO2, HNO3, N2O5, and ClONO2 has previously been validated, and this study compares the most recent version (v3.5) of these five ACE-FTS products to spatially and temporally coincident measurements from other satellite instruments - GOMOS, HALOE, MAESTRO, MIPAS, MLS, OSIRIS, POAM III, SAGE III, SCIAMACHY, SMILES, and SMR. For each ACE-FTS measurement, a photochemical box model was used to simulate the diurnal variations of the NOy species and the ACE-FTS measurements were scaled to the local times of the coincident measurements. The comparisons for all five species show good agreement with correlative satellite measurements. For
Author
P. E. Sheese
University of Toronto
K. A. Walker
University of Waterloo
University of Toronto
C. D. Boone
University of Waterloo
C. A. McLinden
Environment Canada
P. F. Bernath
Old Dominion University
A. E. Bourassa
University of Saskatchewan
J. P. Burrows
Universität Bremen
D. A. Degenstein
University of Saskatchewan
B. Funke
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
D. Fussen
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
G. L. Manney
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.
C. T. McElroy
York University
Donal Murtagh
Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling
C. E. Randall
University of Colorado at Boulder
P. Raspollini
Istituto Di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara
A. Rozanov
Universität Bremen
J. M. Russell
Hampton University
M. Suzuki
JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
M. Shiotani
Kyoto University
Joachim Urban
Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling
T. von Clarmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
J. M. Zawodny
NASA Langley Research Center
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
1867-1381 (ISSN) 1867-8548 (eISSN)
Vol. 9 12 5781-5810Subject Categories
Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
DOI
10.5194/amt-9-5781-2016