Development and characterisation of a state-of-the-art GOME-2 formaldehyde air-mass factor algorithm

Hewson, W.; Barkley, M. P.; Gonzalez Abad, G.; Bösch, H.; Kurosu, T.; Spurr, R.; Tilstra, L. G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4055-2015

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Development and characterisation of a state-of-the-art GOME-2 formaldehyde air-mass factor algorithm

W. Hewson, M. P. Barkley, G. Gonzalez Abad, H. Bösch, T. Kurosu, R. Spurr, and L. G. Tilstra

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SC C16: 'Reference to GOME-2 total ozone', Diego Loyola, 28 Jan 2015
- AC C1208: 'Please see attached pdf for author's response.', Will Hewson, 20 May 2015
RC C126: 'review of Hewson et al. submitted to AMT', Anonymous Referee #3, 18 Feb 2015
- AC C1207: 'Please see attached pdf for author's response.', Will Hewson, 20 May 2015
RC C194: 'review of "Development and characterisation of a state-of-the-art GOME-2 formaldehyde air-mass factor algorithm" by Hewson et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Feb 2015
- AC C1206: 'Please see attached pdf for author's response.', Will Hewson, 20 May 2015
RC C251: 'Development and characterization of a state-of-the-art GOME-2 formaldehyde air-mass factor algorithm by W. Hewson et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Mar 2015
- AC C1205: 'Please see attached pdf for author's response.', Will Hewson, 20 May 2015

Short summary

This work presents the air mass factor (AMF) algorithm in use at the University of Leicester, which introduces scene-specific variables into a per-observation full radiative transfer AMF calculation, including increasing spatial resolution of key environmental parameter databases, input variable area weighting, instrument-specific scattering weight calculation, and inclusion of an ozone vertical profile climatology.