Retrieval of nitric oxide in the mesosphere from SCIAMACHY nominal limb spectra

Bender, Stefan; Sinnhuber, Miriam; Langowski, Martin; Burrows, John P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-209-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-209-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-209-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Research article

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17 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 17 Jan 2017

Retrieval of nitric oxide in the mesosphere from SCIAMACHY nominal limb spectra

Stefan Bender, Miriam Sinnhuber, Martin Langowski, and John P. Burrows

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RC1: 'Review of SCIAMACHY nominal mode NO', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to anonymous referee 1', Stefan Bender, 29 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Reviewer comments for paper: "Retrieval of nitric oxide in the mesosphere from SCIAMACHY nominal limb spectra"', Patrick Espy, 04 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to referee comments 2', Stefan Bender, 29 Nov 2016

Short summary

We present the retrieval of NO number densities from 60 km to 85 km from measurements of SCIAMACHY/Envisat in its nominal limb mode (0–91 km). We derive the densities from the NO gamma bands (230–300 nm). Using prior input reduces the incorrect attribution of NO from the lower thermosphere. The SCIAMACHY nominal limb scans provide almost 10 years of daily NO data in this altitude range, a unique data record to constrain NO in the mesosphere for testing and validating chemistry climate models.