Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2879-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2879-2018
Research article
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17 May 2018
Research article |  | 17 May 2018

The influence of instrumental line shape degradation on NDACC gas retrievals: total column and profile

Youwen Sun, Mathias Palm, Cheng Liu, Frank Hase, David Griffith, Christine Weinzierl, Christof Petri, Wei Wang, and Justus Notholt

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We simulated instrumental line shape (ILS) degradations with respect to typical types of misalignment, and compared their influence on each NDACC gas. The requirements to suppress the ILS-degradation-related biases within a specified accuracy for all NDACC gases were deduced.
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