Intercomparison and evaluation of ground- and satellite-based stratospheric ozone and temperature profiles above Observatoire de Haute-Provence during the Lidar Validation NDACC Experiment (LAVANDE)

Wing, Robin; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Godin-Beekmann, Sophie; McGee, Thomas J.; Sullivan, John T.; Sumnicht, Grant; Ancellet, Gérard; Hauchecorne, Alain; Khaykin, Sergey; Keckhut, Philippe

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5621-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5621-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5621-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article

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22 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 22 Oct 2020

Intercomparison and evaluation of ground- and satellite-based stratospheric ozone and temperature profiles above Observatoire de Haute-Provence during the Lidar Validation NDACC Experiment (LAVANDE)

Robin Wing, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Thomas J. McGee, John T. Sullivan, Grant Sumnicht, Gérard Ancellet, Alain Hauchecorne, Sergey Khaykin, and Philippe Keckhut

Data sets

Nîmes radiosonde data Météo-France http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

MLS data NASA https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?keywords=MLS

Short summary

A lidar intercomparison campaign was conducted over a period of 28 nights at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP) in 2017 and 2018. The objective is to validate the ozone and temperature profiles at OHP to ensure the quality of data submitted to the NDACC database remains high. A mobile reference lidar operated by NASA was transported to OHP and operated concurrently with the French lidars. Agreement for ozone was better than 5 % between 20 and 40 km, and temperatures were equal within 3 K.