Technical Note: A trace gas climatology derived from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) data set
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2012

The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) aboard the Canadian satellite SCISAT (launched in August 2003) was designed to investigate the composition of the upper troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. ACE-FTS utilizes solar occultation to measure temperature and pressure as well as vertical profiles of over thirty chemical species including O-3, H2O, CH4, N2O, CO, NO, NO2, N2O5, HNO3, HCl, ClONO2, CCl3F, CCl2F2, and HF. Global coverage for each species is obtained approximately over a three month period and measurements are made with a vertical resolution of typically 3-4 km. A quality-controlled climatology has been created for each of these 14 baseline species, where individual profiles are averaged over the period of February 2004 to February 2009. Measurements used are from the ACE-FTS version 2.2 data set including updates for O-3 and N2O5. The climatological fields are provided on a monthly and three-monthly basis (DJF, MAM, JJA, SON) at 5 degree latitude and equivalent latitude spacing and on 28 pressure surfaces (26 of which are defined by the Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Chemistry-Climate Model Validation Activity). The ACE-FTS climatological data set is available through the ACE website.

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Författare

A. Jones

University of Toronto

K. A. Walker

University of Waterloo

University of Toronto

J. J. Jin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

J. R. Taylor

National Ecological Observatory Network

National Center for Atmospheric Research

C. D. Boone

University of Waterloo

P. F. Bernath

Old Dominion University

University of York

Samuel Brohede

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Global miljömätteknik

G. L. Manney

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

S. D. McLeod

University of Waterloo

R. Hughes

University of Waterloo

W.H. Daffer

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

1680-7316 (ISSN) 1680-7324 (eISSN)

Vol. 12 11 5207-5220

Ämneskategorier

Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning

DOI

10.5194/acp-12-5207-2012

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