Harmonized dataset of ozone profiles from satellite limb and occultation measurements
Journal article, 2013

In this paper, we present a HARMonized dataset of OZone profiles (HARMOZ) based on limb and occultation measurements from Envisat (GOMOS, MIPAS and SCIAMACHY), Odin (OSIRIS, SMR) and SCISAT (ACE-FTS) satellite instruments. These measurements provide high-vertical-resolution ozone profiles covering the altitude range from the upper troposphere up to the mesosphere in years 2001–2012. HARMOZ has been created in the framework of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative project. The harmonized dataset consists of original retrieved ozone profiles from each instrument, which are screened for invalid data by the instrument teams. While the original ozone profiles are presented in different units and on different vertical grids, the harmonized dataset is given on a common pressure grid in netCDF (network common data form)-4 format. The pressure grid corresponds to vertical sampling of ~ 1 km below 20 km and 2–3 km above 20 km. The vertical range of the ozone profiles is specific for each instrument, thus all information contained in the original data is preserved. Provided altitude and temperature profiles allow the representation of ozone profiles in number density or mixing ratio on a pressure or altitude vertical grid. Geolocation, uncertainty estimates and vertical resolution are provided for each profile. For each instrument, optional parameters, which are related to the data quality, are also included. For convenience of users, tables of biases between each pair of instruments for each month, as well as bias uncertainties, are provided. These tables characterize the data consistency and can be used in various bias and drift analyses, which are needed, for instance, for combining several datasets to obtain a long-term climate dataset. This user-friendly dataset can be interesting and useful for various analyses and applications, such as data merging, data validation, assimilation and scientific research. The dataset is available at http://www.esa-ozone-cci.org/?q=node/161 or at doi:10.5270/esa-ozone_cci-limb_occultation_profiles-2001_2012-v_1-201308.

Author

V. F. Sofieva

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

N. Rahpoe

Universität Bremen

J. Tamminen

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

E. Kyrölä

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

N. Kalakoski

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

M. Weber

Universität Bremen

A. Rozanov

Universität Bremen

C. von Savigny

University of Greifswald

A. Laeng

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

T. von Clarmann

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

G. Stiller

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

S. Lossow

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

D. Degenstein

University of Saskatchewan

A. Bourassa

University of Saskatchewan

C. Adams

University of Saskatchewan

C. Roth

University of Saskatchewan

N.D. Lloyd

University of Saskatchewan

P. Bernath

Old Dominion University

University of York

R. Hargreaves

University of York

Joachim Urban

Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling

Donal Murtagh

Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling

A. Hauchecorne

Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

F. Dalaudier

Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

M. Van Roozendael

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)

N. Kalb

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)

C. Zehner

ESRIN - ESA Centre for Earth Observation

Earth System Science Data

1866-3508 (ISSN) 1866-3516 (eISSN)

Vol. 5 2 349-363

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Climate Research

DOI

10.5194/essd-5-349-2013

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