Evaluation of the OMPS/LP stratospheric aerosol extinction product using SAGE III/ISS observations

Chen, Zhong; Bhartia, Pawan K.; Torres, Omar; Jaross, Glen; Loughman, Robert; DeLand, Matthew; Colarco, Peter; Damadeo, Robert; Taha, Ghassan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3471-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3471-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3471-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

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30 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 30 Jun 2020

Evaluation of the OMPS/LP stratospheric aerosol extinction product using SAGE III/ISS observations

Zhong Chen, Pawan K. Bhartia, Omar Torres, Glen Jaross, Robert Loughman, Matthew DeLand, Peter Colarco, Robert Damadeo, and Ghassan Taha

Data sets

OMPS-NPP L2 LP Aerosol Extinction Vertical Profile swath daily 3slit V1.5 P. K. Bhartia and O. O. Torres https://doi.org/10.5067/GZJJYA7L0YW2

Short summary

The scope of the paper is the evaluation of stratospheric aerosols derived from the OMPS/LP instrument via comparison with independent datasets from the SAGE III/ISS instrument. Results show very good agreement for extinction profiles between an altitude of 19 and 27 km, to within ±25 %, and show systematic differences (LP-SAGE III/ISS) above 28 km and below 19 km (greater than ±25 %).