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Ozone differential absorption lidar algorithm intercomparison

Sophie Godin 1 Allen I. Carswell 2 David P. Donovan 3, 2 Hans Claude 4 Wolfgang Steinbrecht 4 I. Stuart Mcdermid 5 Thomas J. Mcgee 6 Michael R. Gross 6 Hideaki Nakane 7 Daan P. J. Swart 8 Hans B. Bergwerff 8 Osamu Uchino 9 Peter von Der Gathen 10 Roland Neuber 10
1 SA - Service d'aéronomie
2 ISTS - Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science [Toronto]
3 KNMI - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
4 MOHp - Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg
5 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
6 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
7 NIES - National Institute for Environmental Studies
8 RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven]
9 MRI - Meteorological Research Institute [Tsukuba]
10 AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Abstract : An intercomparison of ozone differential absorption lidar algorithms was performed in 1996 within the framework of the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Changes (NDSC) lidar working group. The objective of this research was mainly to test the differentiating techniques used by the various lidar teams involved in the NDSC for the calculation of the ozone number density from the lidar signals. The exercise consisted of processing synthetic lidar signals computed from simple Rayleigh scattering and three initial ozone profiles. Two of these profiles contained perturbations in the low and the high stratosphere to test the vertical resolution of the various algorithms. For the unperturbed profiles the results of the simulations show the correct behavior of the lidar processing methods in the low and the middle stratosphere with biases of less than 1% with respect to the initial profile to as high as 30 km in most cases. In the upper stratosphere, significant biases reaching 10% at 45 km for most of the algorithms are obtained. This bias is due to the decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio with altitude, which makes it necessary to increase the number of points of the derivative low-pass filter used for data processing. As a consequence the response of the various retrieval algorithms to perturbations in the ozone profile is much better in the lower stratosphere than in the higher range. These results show the necessity of limiting the vertical smoothing in the ozone lidar retrieval algorithm and questions the ability of current lidar systems to detect long-term ozone trends above 40 km. Otherwise the simulations show in general a correct estimation of the ozone profile random error and, as shown by the tests involving the perturbed ozone profiles, some inconsistency in the estimation of the vertical resolution among the lidar teams involved in this experiment.
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Sophie Godin, Allen I. Carswell, David P. Donovan, Hans Claude, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, et al.. Ozone differential absorption lidar algorithm intercomparison. Applied optics, Optical Society of America, 1999, 38 (30), pp.6225-6236. ⟨10.1364/AO.38.006225⟩. ⟨insu-03090524⟩

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