Total column water vapor retrieval for Global Ozone Monitoring Experience-2 (GOME-2) visible blue observations

Chan, Ka Lok; Valks, Pieter; Slijkhuis, Sander; Köhler, Claas; Loyola, Diego

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4169-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4169-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4169-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Research article

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07 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 07 Aug 2020

Total column water vapor retrieval for Global Ozone Monitoring Experience-2 (GOME-2) visible blue observations

Ka Lok Chan, Pieter Valks, Sander Slijkhuis, Claas Köhler, and Diego Loyola

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Final revised paper (published on 07 Aug 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 23 Mar 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer #1', Ka Lok Chan, 01 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript of Chan et al. “Total column water vapor retrieval for GOME-2 visible blue observations”', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 May 2020
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer #2', Ka Lok Chan, 01 Jul 2020
RC3: 'comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 28 May 2020
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer #3', Ka Lok Chan, 01 Jul 2020
SC1: 'Comment on Total column water vapor retrieval for GOME-2 visible blue observations', Christian Borger, 10 Jun 2020
- AC4: 'Response to interactive comments by Christian Borger', Ka Lok Chan, 01 Jul 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Ka Lok Chan on behalf of the Authors (01 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Jul 2020) by Cheng Liu

AR by Ka Lok Chan on behalf of the Authors (06 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The paper presents a new water vapor retrieval algorithm in the blue spectral band for the Global Ozone Monitoring Experience-2 (GOME-2) satellite instruments. The new retrieval features a dynamic a priori optimization module, which makes it less dependent on input from chemistry transport models and better suited for climate studies. As the blue band wavelength is available to various satellites, retrieving water vapor in the blue band potentially extends the water vapor climate record.