Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-569-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-569-2025
Research article
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03 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 03 Feb 2025

Validation of the version 4.5 MAESTRO ozone and NO2 measurements

Paul S. Jeffery, James R. Drummond, C. Thomas McElroy, Kaley A. Walker, and Jiansheng Zou

Data sets

MAESTRO Version 4 Level 2 Data MAESTRO https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/

Data Quality Flags for ACE-FTS Level 2 Version 4.1/4.2 Data Set, Borealis, V30 P. Sheese and K. Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/BC4ATC

Data Quality Flags for ACE-FTS Level 2 Version 5.2 Data Set, Borealis, V3 P. Sheese and K. Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/NAYNFE

MLS/Aura Near-Real-Time L2 Ozone (O3) Mixing Ratio V005, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) EOS MLS Science Team https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ML2O3_NRT_005.html

OMPS-NPP L2 LP Ozone (O$_3$) Vertical Profile swath daily Center slit V2.6 N. A. Kramarova https://doi.org/10.5067/8MO7DEDYTBH7

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) II Version 7.0 Aerosol, O3, NO2 and H2O Profiles in binary format NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBS/SAGEII/SOLAR_BINARY_L2-V7.0

SAGE III/ISS L2 Solar Event Species Profiles (HDF5) V053 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/ISS/SAGEIII/SOLAR_HDF5_L2-V5.3

Diurnal Scaling Factors S. Strode https://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/project/GMI_SF/

OSIRIS Version 7.2 Level 2 OSIRIS ftp://odin-osiris.usask.ca/

Envisat GOMOS Level 2 – Atmospheric constituents profiles – Gridded User Friendly Product [GOMOS\_UFP\_gridded], Version R/IPF 6.01 European Space Agency https://doi.org/10.57780/EN1-a0f1eee

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Short summary
The MAESTRO instrument has been monitoring ozone and NO2 since February 2004. A new version of these data products has recently been released; however, these new products must be validated against other datasets to ensure their validity. This study presents such an assessment, using measurements from 11 satellite instruments to characterize the new MAESTRO products. In the stratosphere, good agreement is found for ozone and acceptable agreement is found for NO2 with these other datasets.