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| Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 7, 4 (2007) 12463-12539 |
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| Validation of the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) version 2.2 temperature using ground-based and space-borne measurements |
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| R. J. Sica 1M. R. M. Izawa 2 |
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| (2007-08-23) |
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| An ensemble of space-borne and ground-based instruments has been used to evaluate the quality of the version 2.2 temperature retrievals from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS). The agreement of ACE-FTS temperatures with other sensors is typically better than 2 K in the stratosphere and upper troposphere and 5 K in the lower mesosphere. There is evidence of a systematic high bias (roughly 3–6 K) in the ACE-FTS temperatures in the mesosphere, and a possible systematic low bias (roughly 2 K) in ACE-FTS temperatures near 23 km. Some ACE-FTS temperature profiles exhibit unphysical oscillations, a problem fixed in preliminary comparisons with temperatures derived using the next version of the ACE-FTS retrieval software. Though these relatively large oscillations in temperature can be on the order of 10 K in the mesosphere, retrieved volume mixing ratio profiles typically vary by less than a percent or so. Statistical comparisons suggest these oscillations occur in about 10% of the retrieved profiles. Analysis from a set of coincident lidar measurements suggests that the random error in ACE-FTS version 2.2 temperatures has a lower limit of about ±2 K. |
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| 1: | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
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The University of Western Ontario |
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| 2: | Department of Earth Sciences |
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The University of Western Ontario |
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| 3: | Department of Chemistry |
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University of Waterloo |
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| 4: | Department of Physics |
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Department of Physics |
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| 5: | Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies |
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Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies |
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| 6: | Department of Physics |
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Department of Physics |
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| 7: | Department of Chemistry |
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Department of Chemistry |
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| 8: | Ice |
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ocean |
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| 9: | Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement (LPCE) |
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CNRS : UMR6115 – INSU – Université d'Orléans |
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| 10: | Geophysical Institute and Atmospheric Sciences Program |
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University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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| 11: | Columbus Technologies Inc. |
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Columbus Technologies Inc. |
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| 12: | Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (BIRA-IASB) |
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Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy |
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| 13: | Science and Technology Branch |
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Environment Canada |
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| 14: | Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics |
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Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics |
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| 15: | Service d'aéronomie (SA) |
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CNRS : UMR7620 – INSU – Université Pierre et Marie Curie [UPMC] - Paris VI – Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines |
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| 16: | Finnish Meteorological Institute – Arctic Research Centre |
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Finnish Meteorological Institute – Arctic Research Centre |
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| 17: | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [NASA] (JPL) |
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NASA – California Institute of Technology |
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| 18: | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
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| 19: | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) |
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National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
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| 20: | Department of Atmospheric |
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Oceanic and Planetary Physics |
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| 21: | Istituto di Fisica Applicata 'Nello Carrara' (IFAC) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) |
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Istituto di Fisica Applicata 'Nello Carrara' (IFAC) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) |
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| 22: | Dip. di Chimica Fisica e Inorganica |
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Dip. di Chimica Fisica e Inorganica |
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| 23: | Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) |
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Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) |
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| 24: | Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology |
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Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology |
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| Subject | : | Sciences of the Universe/Ocean, Atmosphere |
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| From: Publication EGU | |
| Submitted on: Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:00:00 | |
| Updated on: Friday, 10 October 2008 08:38:20 | |
