Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1825-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1825-2020
Research article
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08 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 08 Apr 2020

Comparison of optimal estimation HDO∕H2O retrievals from AIRS with ORACLES measurements

Robert L. Herman, John Worden, David Noone, Dean Henze, Kevin Bowman, Karen Cady-Pereira, Vivienne H. Payne, Susan S. Kulawik, and Dejian Fu

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This study is the first assessment and validation of AIRS HDO / H2O retrieved by optimal estimation. Initial comparisons with in situ measurements from NASA ORACLES are promising: the small bias and consistent rms of AIRS suggest that AIRS has well-characterized HDO / H2O. This analysis opens the possibility of a new 17-year long-term data record of global tropospheric HDO / H2O measured from space.