Comparison of ground-based and satellite measurements of water vapour vertical profiles over Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

Weaver, Dan; Strong, Kimberly; Walker, Kaley A.; Sioris, Chris; Schneider, Matthias; McElroy, C. Thomas; Vömel, Holger; Sommer, Michael; Weigel, Katja; Rozanov, Alexei; Burrows, John P.; Read, William G.; Fishbein, Evan; Stiller, Gabriele

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4039-2019

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Water vapour in the upper troposphere and middle atmosphere:...

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4039-2019

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23 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 23 Jul 2019

Comparison of ground-based and satellite measurements of water vapour vertical profiles over Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

Dan Weaver, Kimberly Strong, Kaley A. Walker, Chris Sioris, Matthias Schneider, C. Thomas McElroy, Holger Vömel, Michael Sommer, Katja Weigel, Alexei Rozanov, John P. Burrows, William G. Read, Evan Fishbein, and Gabriele Stiller

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4039-2019-supplement

Data sets

SCISAT Data ACE http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/data.php

Access to IMK/IAA generated MIPAS/Envisat data MIPAS https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/308.php#org0f1a3a1

MLS Data MLS https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov

ENVISAT SCIAMACHY value added data archive at IUP/IFE Bremen SCIAMACHY http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/scia-arc/

Get Data TES https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/data/

Short summary

This work assesses water vapour profiles acquired by Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) satellite instruments in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) using comparisons to radiosondes and ground-based Fourier transform infrared spectrometer measurements acquired at a Canadian high Arctic measurement site in Eureka, Nunavut. Additional comparisons are made between these Eureka measurements and other water vapour satellite datasets for context, including AIRS, MLS, and others.