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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6837-2020

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16 Dec 2020

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| 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

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RC1: 'Review of “Validation of the vertical profiles of HCl over the wide range of the stratosphere to the lower thermosphere measured by SMILES” submitted to Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee comments \#1', Seidai Nara, 14 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review of the paper amt-2020-105, by Nara et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee comments #2', Seidai Nara, 14 Aug 2020

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AR by Seidai Nara on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Aug 2020) by Miriam Sinnhuber

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (20 Sep 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Oct 2020) by Miriam Sinnhuber

AR by Seidai Nara on behalf of the Authors (15 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

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AA by Seidai Nara on behalf of the Authors (08 Dec 2020) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (15 Dec 2020) by Miriam Sinnhuber

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.