AMT Atmospheric Measurement Techniques AMT Atmos. Meas. Tech. 1867-8548 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/amt-6-3539-2013 SAGE version 7.0 algorithm: application to SAGE II Damadeo R. P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1466-839X 1 Zawodny J. M. 1 Thomason L. W. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1902-0840 1 Iyer N. 2 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, USA 17 12 2013 6 12 3539 3561 Copyright: © 2013 R. P. Damadeo et al. 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/6/3539/2013/amt-6-3539-2013.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/6/3539/2013/amt-6-3539-2013.pdf

This paper details the SAGE (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment) version 7.0 algorithm and how it is applied to SAGE II. Changes made between the previous (v6.2) and current (v7.0) versions are described and their impacts on the data products explained for both coincident event comparisons and time-series analysis. Users of the data will notice a general improvement in all of the SAGE II data products, which are now in better agreement with more modern data sets (e.g., SAGE III) and more robust for use with trend studies.

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