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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5873-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5873-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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30 Oct 2025
Research article |
| 30 Oct 2025
| 30 Oct 2025
Intercomparison and validation of first GLORIA-B measurements of stratospheric and upper tropospheric long-lived tracers and photochemically active species
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Anne Kleinert
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sören Johansson
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Felix Friedl-Vallon
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Höpfner
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Jörn Ungermann
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Tom Neubert
Institute of Technology and Engineering (ITE), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Valéry Catoire
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E/CNRS), Université Orléans, Orléans, France
Cyril Crevoisier
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL, CNRS, Palaiseau CEDEX, France
Andreas Engel
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Thomas Gulde
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Patrick Jacquet
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E/CNRS), Université Orléans, Orléans, France
Oliver Kirner
Scientific Computing Center (SCC), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Erik Kretschmer
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Kulessa
Institute of Technology and Engineering (ITE), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Johannes C. Laube
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Guido Maucher
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Hans Nordmeyer
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Christof Piesch
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Peter Preusse
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Markus Retzlaff
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Georg Schardt
Institute of Technology and Engineering (ITE), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Johan Schillings
Institute of Technology and Engineering (ITE), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Herbert Schneider
Institute of Technology and Engineering (ITE), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Axel Schönfeld
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Tanja Schuck
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Wolfgang Woiwode
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Martin Riese
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Research, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Peter Braesicke
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Business Area Research and Development, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Data sets
Data for HEMERA 2021 Gerald Wetzel et al. https://doi.org/10.35097/08495ek0eja9q53z
Greenhouse gas profiles from the 2021 HEMERA-TWIN balloon launch Tanja Schuck et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13918431
Vertical distribution of halogenated trace gases in the summer Arctic stratosphere based on two independent air sampling methods, Version v1 Johannes Laube https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15437807
Short summary
We present vertical trace gas profiles from the first balloon flight of the newly developed GLORIA-B limb-imaging Fourier-Transform spectrometer. Longer-lived gases are compared to external measurements to assess the quality of the GLORIA-B observations. Diurnal changes of photochemically active species are compared to model simulations. GLORIA-B demonstrates the capability of balloon-borne limb imaging to provide high-resolution vertical profiles of trace gases up to the middle stratosphere.
We present vertical trace gas profiles from the first balloon flight of the newly developed...
