Articles | Volume 11, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4737-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4737-2018
Research article
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14 Aug 2018
Research article |  | 14 Aug 2018

Airborne limb-imaging measurements of temperature, HNO3, O3, ClONO2, H2O and CFC-12 during the Arctic winter 2015/2016: characterization, in situ validation and comparison to Aura/MLS

Sören Johansson, Wolfgang Woiwode, Michael Höpfner, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Anne Kleinert, Erik Kretschmer, Thomas Latzko, Johannes Orphal, Peter Preusse, Jörn Ungermann, Michelle L. Santee, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Andreas Marsing, Christiane Voigt, Andreas Giez, Martina Krämer, Christian Rolf, Andreas Zahn, Andreas Engel, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, and Hermann Oelhaf

Data sets

High Altitude and LOng Range database HALO consortium https://doi.org/10.17616/R39Q0T

MLS/Aura Level 2 Nitric Acid (HNO3) Mixing Ratio V004 G. Manney, M. Santee, L. Froidevaux, N. Livesey, and W. Read https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2012

MLS/Aura Level 2 Ozone (O3) Mixing Ratio V004 M. Schwartz, L. Froidevaux, N. Livesey, and W. Read https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2017

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Short summary
We present two-dimensional cross sections of temperature, HNO3, O3, ClONO2, H2O and CFC-12 from measurements of the GLORIA infrared limb imager during the POLSTRACC/GW-LCYCLE/SALSA aircraft campaigns in the Arctic winter 2015/2016. GLORIA sounded the atmosphere between 5 and 14 km with vertical resolutions of 0.4–1 km. Estimated errors are in the range of 1–2 K (temperature) and 10 %–20 % (trace gases). Comparisons to in situ instruments onboard the aircraft and to Aura/MLS are shown.