Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6837-2020
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
Research article
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16 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2020

Validation of SMILES HCl profiles over a wide range from the stratosphere to the lower thermosphere

Seidai Nara, Tomohiro O. Sato, Takayoshi Yamada, Tamaki Fujinawa, Kota Kuribayashi, Takeshi Manabe, Lucien Froidevaux, Nathaniel J. Livesey, Kaley A. Walker, Jian Xu, Franz Schreier, Yvan J. Orsolini, Varavut Limpasuvan, Nario Kuno, and Yasuko Kasai

Data sets

GES DISC Data Archive NASA https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?page=1&keywords=AURAMLS

EOS MLS data, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Aura/MLS https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/

EOS MLS data SCISAT/ACE-FTS https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/

Inversion for Limb Infrared Atmospheric Sounding J. Xu https://elib.dlr.de/97249/

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Short summary
In the atmosphere, more than 80 % of chlorine compounds are anthropogenic. Hydrogen chloride (HCl), the main stratospheric chlorine reservoir, is useful to estimate the total budget of the atmospheric chlorine compounds. We report, for the first time, the HCl vertical distribution from the middle troposphere to the lower thermosphere using a high-sensitivity SMILES measurement; the data quality is quantified by comparisons with other measurements and via theoretical error analysis.
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