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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3377-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3377-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
09 Jun 2022
Research article |
| 09 Jun 2022
| 09 Jun 2022
The SPARC Water Vapor Assessment II: assessment of satellite measurements of upper tropospheric humidity
William G. Read
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Gabriele Stiller
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Stefan Lossow
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Kiefer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Farahnaz Khosrawi
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dale Hurst
Global Monitoring Division, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, CO, USA
Holger Vömel
Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Karen Rosenlof
Chemical Science Division, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, CO, USA
Bianca M. Dinelli
Instituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima del Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISAC-CNR), Via Gobetti, 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Piera Raspollini
Instituto di Fisica Applicata del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFAC-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano, 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Gerald E. Nedoluha
Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, 4555 Overlook Avenue Southwest, Washington, DC 20375, USA
John C. Gille
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0311, USA
Yasuko Kasai
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Terahertz Technology Research Center, 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
Patrick Eriksson
Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Hörsalsvägen 11, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
Christopher E. Sioris
Center for Research in Earth and Space Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
Kaley A. Walker
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
Katja Weigel
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
John P. Burrows
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Alexei Rozanov
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Data sets
Water vapour profiles from WAVAS SAtellite component in HARmonized format (WAVAS_SAHAR) - Version 2 Alexandra Laeng https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000098908
Advancements, Measurement Uncertainities, and Recent Comparisons of the NOAA Frostpoint Hygrometer (https://gml.noaa.gov/dv/data/index.php?type=Balloon) E. G. Hall, A. F. Jordan, D. F. Hurst, S. J. Oltmans, H. Vömel, B. Kühroich, and V. Ebert https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4295-2016
AIRS/Aqua L3 Daily Standard Physical Retrieval (AIRS-only) 1 degree × 1 degree V006 AIRS Science Team and J. Teixeira https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/AIRS3STD_006/summary
Short summary
This paper attempts to provide an assessment of the accuracy of 21 satellite-based instruments that remotely measure atmospheric humidity in the upper troposphere of the Earth's atmosphere. The instruments made their measurements from 1984 to the present time; however, most of these instruments began operations after 2000, and only a few are still operational. The objective of this study is to quantify the accuracy of each satellite humidity data set.
This paper attempts to provide an assessment of the accuracy of 21 satellite-based instruments...
