Tropospheric ozone and ozone profiles retrieved from GOME-2 and their validation

Miles, G. M.; Siddans, R.; Kerridge, B. J.; Latter, B. G.; Richards, N. A. D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-385-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 385–398, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-385-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Special issue: GOME-2: calibration, algorithms, data products and...

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 385–398, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-385-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Research article 22 Jan 2015

Research article | 22 Jan 2015

Tropospheric ozone and ozone profiles retrieved from GOME-2 and their validation

G. M. Miles et al.

Download

Final revised paper (published on 22 Jan 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 31 Jul 2014)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

AC C2056: 'Clarification of terms/discussion relating to Figure 5', Georgina Miles, 06 Aug 2014
RC C2197: 'Review', Thomas von Clarmann, 15 Aug 2014
RC C2374: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Aug 2014

Short summary

This work provides a description and validation of significantly updated algorithm for the retrieval of atmospheric ozone profiles, with a focus on the sensitivity to ozone in the lower troposphere. The satellite-derived ozone profiles are validated against ozonesondes globally, and achieves an average bias of 6% in the lower troposphere. The global distribution is also compared to the ozone distribution from a chemistry transport model, with an average agreement of less than 2 Dobson units.