A study of the approaches used to retrieve aerosol extinction, as applied to limb observations made by OSIRIS and SCIAMACHY

Rieger, Landon A.; Malinina, Elizaveta P.; Rozanov, Alexei V.; Burrows, John P.; Bourassa, Adam E.; Degenstein, Doug A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3433-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 3433–3445, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3433-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 3433–3445, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3433-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

Research article 15 Jun 2018

Research article | 15 Jun 2018

A study of the approaches used to retrieve aerosol extinction, as applied to limb observations made by OSIRIS and SCIAMACHY

Landon A. Rieger et al.

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RC1: 'Review of "A study of the approaches used to retrieve aerosol extinction, as applied to limb observations made by OSIRIS and SCIAMACHY" by Rieger et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Landon Rieger, 11 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Feb 2018
- AC3: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Landon Rieger, 11 Apr 2018
RC3: 'review of Rieger et al. (2018)', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Feb 2018
- AC4: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #3', Landon Rieger, 11 Apr 2018
AC1: 'Figure display problems', Landon Rieger, 22 Feb 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Landon Rieger on behalf of the Authors (12 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 May 2018) by Omar Torres

AR by Landon Rieger on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This paper compares aerosol extinction records from two limb scattering instruments, OSIRIS and SCIAMACHY, to that from the occultation instrument SAGE II. Differences are investigated through modelling and retrieval studies and important sources of systematic errors are quantified. It is found that the largest biases come from uncertainties in the aerosol size distribution and the aerosol particle concentration at altitudes above 30 km.