A new MesosphEO data set of temperature profiles from 35 to 85&thinsp;km using Rayleigh scattering at limb from GOMOS/ENVISAT daytime observations

Hauchecorne, Alain; Blanot, Laurent; Wing, Robin; Keckhut, Philippe; Khaykin, Sergey; Bertaux, Jean-Loup; Meftah, Mustapha; Claud, Chantal; Sofieva, Viktoria

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-749-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-749-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-749-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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01 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 01 Feb 2019

A new MesosphEO data set of temperature profiles from 35 to 85 km using Rayleigh scattering at limb from GOMOS/ENVISAT daytime observations

Alain Hauchecorne, Laurent Blanot, Robin Wing, Philippe Keckhut, Sergey Khaykin, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Mustapha Meftah, Chantal Claud, and Viktoria Sofieva

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RC1: 'Hauchecorne et al. - Daytime Rayleigh scattering limb temperature measurement from 35 to 85 km with GOMOS', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Answer to Referee #1 comments', Alain Hauchecorne, 11 Dec 2018
- AC3: 'Answer to referee #1 comments', Alain Hauchecorne, 11 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “A new MesosphEO dataset of temperature profiles from 35 to 85 km using Rayleigh scattering at limb from GOMOS/ENVISAT daytime observations” by Alain Hauchecorne et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to referee #2 comments', Alain Hauchecorne, 11 Dec 2018

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ED: Publish as is (15 Jan 2019) by William Ward

AR by Alain Hauchecorne on behalf of the Authors (22 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This paper presents a new dataset of temperature profiles in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere acquired with the GOMOS spectrometer on board the European satellite ENVISAT. The principle is to observe the scattering of sunlight by air molecules at the Earth limb. The observed signal is proportional to the atmospheric density from which the temperature is derived. This technique provides a new source of information on temperature where satellite observations are sparse.