Atmospheric composition and thermodynamic retrievals from the ARIES airborne TIR-FTS system – Part 2: Validation and results from aircraft campaigns

Allen, G.; Illingworth, S. M.; O'Shea, S. J.; Newman, S.; Vance, A.; Bauguitte, S. J.-B.; Marenco, F.; Kent, J.; Bower, K.; Gallagher, M. W.; Muller, J.; Percival, C. J.; Harlow, C.; Lee, J.; Taylor, J. P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4401-2014

Articles | Volume 7, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4401-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4401-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 12

Research article

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12 Dec 2014

Research article |

| 12 Dec 2014

Atmospheric composition and thermodynamic retrievals from the ARIES airborne TIR-FTS system – Part 2: Validation and results from aircraft campaigns

G. Allen, S. M. Illingworth, S. J. O'Shea, S. Newman, A. Vance, S. J.-B. Bauguitte, F. Marenco, J. Kent, K. Bower, M. W. Gallagher, J. Muller, C. J. Percival, C. Harlow, J. Lee, and J. P. Taylor

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RC C1150: 'amt-2014-73', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 May 2014
- AC C2397: 'Response to reviewer 1', Grant Allen, 29 Aug 2014
  - AC C2413: 'Addendum to response to Reviewer 1', Grant Allen, 29 Aug 2014
RC C1380: 'Referee #2', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Jun 2014
- AC C2404: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Grant Allen, 29 Aug 2014

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This paper presents a validated method and data set for new retrievals of trace gas concentrations and temperature from the ARIES infrared spectrometer instrument on the UK Atmospheric Research Aircraft (www.faam.ac.uk). This new capability for the aircraft will allow new science to be done because of the way it can sense information about the atmosphere without having to physically pass through it (remote sensing). This will allow us to better understand the make-up of the lower atmosphere.