Validation of GOME-2/MetOp-A total water vapour column using reference radiosonde data from the GRUAN network

Antón, M.; Loyola, D.; Román, R.; Vömel, H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1135-2015

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06 Mar 2015

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| 06 Mar 2015

Validation of GOME-2/MetOp-A total water vapour column using reference radiosonde data from the GRUAN network

M. Antón, D. Loyola, R. Román, and H. Vömel

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Mar 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Sep 2014)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C3220: 'Interactive comment on "Validation of GOME-2/MetOp-A total water vapour column using reference radiosonde data from GRUAN network"', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Oct 2014
- AC C4194: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Manuel Antón, 12 Dec 2014
RC C3279: 'Review of "Validation of GOME-2/MetOp-A total water vapour column using reference radiosonde data from GRUAN network"', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Oct 2014
- AC C4195: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Manuel Antón, 12 Dec 2014

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The main goal of this article was to validate the total water vapour column (TWVC) measured by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) satellite sensor highly accurate sounding measurements. The smallest relative differences found in this satellite-sounding comparison (below 10%) were achieved for those cloud-free cases with satellite SZA below 50º which can be considered as a good result for satellite retrievals.