Articles | Volume 17, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6459-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6459-2024
Research article
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11 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 11 Nov 2024

Improved convective cloud differential (CCD) tropospheric ozone from S5P-TROPOMI satellite data using local cloud fields

Swathi Maratt Satheesan, Kai-Uwe Eichmann, John P. Burrows, Mark Weber, Ryan Stauffer, Anne M. Thompson, and Debra Kollonige

Data sets

TROPOMI/S5P ATBD of tropospheric ozone data products, Issue 2.3 K.-P. Heue et al. https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/documents/247904/2476257/Sentinel-5P-ATBD-TROPOMI-Tropospheric-Ozone.pdf/d2106102-b5c3-4d28-b752-026e3448aab2?t=1625507455328

Ozone Monitoring Community: OzoneSonde, World Meteorological Organization-Global Atmosphere Watch Program (WMO-GAW)/World Ozone and Ul- traviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) WMO/GAW https://doi.org/10.14287/10000008

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Short summary
CHORA, an advanced cloud convective differential technique, enhances the accuracy of tropospheric-ozone retrievals. Unlike the traditional Pacific cloud reference sector scheme, CHORA introduces a local-cloud reference sector and an alternative approach (CLCT) for precision. Analysing monthly averaged TROPOMI data from 2018 to 2022 and validating with SHADOZ ozonesonde data, CLCT outperforms other methods and so is the preferred choice, especially in future geostationary satellite missions.