Quantifying TOLNet ozone lidar accuracy during the 2014 DISCOVER-AQ and FRAPPÉ campaigns

Wang, Lihua; Newchurch, Michael J.; Alvarez II, Raul J.; Berkoff, Timothy A.; Brown, Steven S.; Carrion, William; De Young, Russell J.; Johnson, Bryan J.; Ganoe, Rene; Gronoff, Guillaume; Kirgis, Guillaume; Kuang, Shi; Langford, Andrew O.; Leblanc, Thierry; McDuffie, Erin E.; McGee, Thomas J.; Pliutau, Denis; Senff, Christoph J.; Sullivan, John T.; Sumnicht, Grant; Twigg, Laurence W.; Weinheimer, Andrew J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3865-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3865-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3865-2017

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

Articles | Volume 10, issue 10

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23 Oct 2017

Research article |

| 23 Oct 2017

Quantifying TOLNet ozone lidar accuracy during the 2014 DISCOVER-AQ and FRAPPÉ campaigns

Lihua Wang, Michael J. Newchurch, Raul J. Alvarez II, Timothy A. Berkoff, Steven S. Brown, William Carrion, Russell J. De Young, Bryan J. Johnson, Rene Ganoe, Guillaume Gronoff, Guillaume Kirgis, Shi Kuang, Andrew O. Langford, Thierry Leblanc, Erin E. McDuffie, Thomas J. McGee, Denis Pliutau, Christoph J. Senff, John T. Sullivan, Grant Sumnicht, Laurence W. Twigg, and Andrew J. Weinheimer

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RC1: 'Review of Wang et al. AMT', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Interesting, but to me accuracy of the different systems remains an open question', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jun 2017
AC1: 'Response to the reviewers and the draft with tracked changes', Shi Kuang, 25 Aug 2017

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AR by Shi Kuang on behalf of the Authors (25 Aug 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Aug 2017) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (08 Sep 2017)

ED: Publish as is (13 Sep 2017) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

AR by Shi Kuang on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

Intercomparisons have been made between three TOLNet ozone lidars and between the lidars and other ozone instruments during the 2014 DISCOVER-AQ and FRAPPÉ campaigns in Colorado. Overall, the TOLNet lidars are capable of measuring 5 min tropospheric ozone variations with accuracy better than ±15 % in terms of their vertical resolving capability and better than ±5 % in terms of their column average measurement. These results indicate very good measurement accuracy for the three TOLNet lidars.