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Volume 9, 2016

15 Jan 2016

Assessment of adequate quality and collocation of reference measurements with space-borne hyperspectral infrared instruments to validate retrievals of temperature and water vapour

X. Calbet

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1-2016, 2016

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15 Jan 2016

The microwave properties of simulated melting precipitation particles: sensitivity to initial melting

B. T. Johnson, W. S. Olson, and G. Skofronick-Jackson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 9–21, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-9-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-9-2016, 2016

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15 Jan 2016

Characterization and source apportionment of organic aerosol using offline aerosol mass spectrometry

K. R. Daellenbach, C. Bozzetti, A. Křepelová, F. Canonaco, R. Wolf, P. Zotter, P. Fermo, M. Crippa, J. G. Slowik, Y. Sosedova, Y. Zhang, R.-J. Huang, L. Poulain, S. Szidat, U. Baltensperger, I. El Haddad, and A. S. H. Prévôt

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 23–39, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-23-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-23-2016, 2016

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15 Jan 2016

Broadband cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy in the ultraviolet spectral region for measurements of nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde

R. A. Washenfelder, A. R. Attwood, J. M. Flores, K. J. Zarzana, Y. Rudich, and S. S. Brown

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 41–52, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-41-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-41-2016, 2016

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15 Jan 2016

Aerosol optical depth retrievals at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory from 1941 to 2013 by using artificial neural networks

R. D. García, O. E. García, E. Cuevas, V. E. Cachorro, A. Barreto, C. Guirado-Fuentes, N. Kouremeti, J. J. Bustos, P. M. Romero-Campos, and A. M. de Frutos

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 53–62, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-53-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-53-2016, 2016

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15 Jan 2016

The development and evaluation of airborne in situ N₂O and CH₄ sampling using a quantum cascade laser absorption spectrometer (QCLAS)

J. R. Pitt, M. Le Breton, G. Allen, C. J. Percival, M. W. Gallagher, S. J.-B. Bauguitte, S. J. O'Shea, J. B. A. Muller, M. S. Zahniser, J. Pyle, and P. I. Palmer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 63–77, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-63-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-63-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

The uncertainty of the atmospheric integrated water vapour estimated from GNSS observations

T. Ning, J. Wang, G. Elgered, G. Dick, J. Wickert, M. Bradke, M. Sommer, R. Querel, and D. Smale

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 79–92, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-79-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-79-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

Mesospheric gravity wave characteristics and identification of their sources around spring equinox over Indian low latitudes

M. Sivakandan, I. Paulino, A. Taori, and K. Niranjan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 93–102, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-93-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-93-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

Measurement of nonvolatile particle number size distribution

G. I. Gkatzelis, D. K. Papanastasiou, K. Florou, C. Kaltsonoudis, E. Louvaris, and S. N. Pandis

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 103–114, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-103-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-103-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

Sensitivity of thermal infrared nadir instruments to the chemical and microphysical properties of UTLS secondary sulfate aerosols

P. Sellitto and B. Legras

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 115–132, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-115-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-115-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

UTLS water vapour from SCIAMACHY limb measurementsV3.01 (2002–2012)

K. Weigel, A. Rozanov, F. Azam, K. Bramstedt, R. Damadeo, K.-U. Eichmann, C. Gebhardt, D. Hurst, M. Kraemer, S. Lossow, W. Read, N. Spelten, G. P. Stiller, K. A. Walker, M. Weber, H. Bovensmann, and J. P. Burrows

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 133–158, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-133-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-133-2016, 2016

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20 Jan 2016

In situ characterization of mixed phase clouds using the Small Ice Detector and the Particle Phase Discriminator

P. Vochezer, E. Järvinen, R. Wagner, P. Kupiszewski, T. Leisner, and M. Schnaiter

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 159–177, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-159-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-159-2016, 2016

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25 Jan 2016

An automated gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry instrument for the quantitative analysis of halocarbons in air

F. Obersteiner, H. Bönisch, and A. Engel

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 179–194, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-179-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-179-2016, 2016

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25 Jan 2016

A re-evaluated Canadian ozonesonde record: measurements of the vertical distribution of ozone over Canada from 1966 to 2013

D. W. Tarasick, J. Davies, H. G. J. Smit, and S. J. Oltmans

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 195–214, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-195-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-195-2016, 2016

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25 Jan 2016

Non-parametric and least squares Langley plot methods

P. W. Kiedron and J. J. Michalsky

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 215–225, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-215-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-215-2016, 2016

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26 Jan 2016

Carbon monoxide total columns from SCIAMACHY 2.3  µm atmospheric reflectance measurements: towards a full-mission data product (2003–2012)

T. Borsdorff, P. Tol, J. E. Williams, J. de Laat, J. aan de Brugh, P. Nédélec, I. Aben, and J. Landgraf

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 227–248, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-227-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-227-2016, 2016

27 Jan 2016

Comparison of GOME-2/Metop-A ozone profiles with GOMOS, OSIRIS and MLS measurements

A. Kauppi, O. N. E. Tuinder, S. Tukiainen, V. Sofieva, and J. Tamminen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 249–261, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-249-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-249-2016, 2016

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27 Jan 2016

Real-time analysis of δ¹³C- and δD-CH₄ in ambient air with laser spectroscopy: method development and first intercomparison results

S. Eyer, B. Tuzson, M. E. Popa, C. van der Veen, T. Röckmann, M. Rothe, W. A. Brand, R. Fisher, D. Lowry, E. G. Nisbet, M. S. Brennwald, E. Harris, C. Zellweger, L. Emmenegger, H. Fischer, and J. Mohn

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 263–280, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-263-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-263-2016, 2016

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27 Jan 2016

Characterization of downwelling radiance measured from a ground-based microwave radiometer using numerical weather prediction model data

M.-H. Ahn, H. Y. Won, D. Han, Y.-H. Kim, and J.-C. Ha

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 281–293, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-281-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-281-2016, 2016

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28 Jan 2016

Retrieval of sodium number density profiles in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere from SCIAMACHY limb emission measurements

M. P. Langowski, C. von Savigny, J. P. Burrows, V. V. Rozanov, T. Dunker, U.-P. Hoppe, M. Sinnhuber, and A. C. Aikin

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 295–311, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-295-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-295-2016, 2016

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03 Feb 2016

Long-term variability of aerosol optical thickness in Eastern Europe over 2001–2014 according to the measurements at the Moscow MSU MO AERONET site with additional cloud and NO₂ correction

N. Y. Chubarova, A. A. Poliukhov, and I. D. Gorlova

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 313–334, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-313-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-313-2016, 2016

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03 Feb 2016

Ionospheric correction of GPS radio occultation data in the troposphere

Z. Zeng, S. Sokolovskiy, W. Schreiner, D. Hunt, J. Lin, and Y.-H. Kuo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 335–346, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-335-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-335-2016, 2016

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04 Feb 2016

Mobile sensor network noise reduction and recalibration using a Bayesian network

Y. Xiang, Y. Tang, and W. Zhu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 347–357, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-347-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-347-2016, 2016

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05 Feb 2016

Impact of aerosols on the OMI tropospheric NO₂ retrievals over industrialized regions: how accurate is the aerosol correction of cloud-free scenes via a simple cloud model?

J. Chimot, T. Vlemmix, J. P. Veefkind, J. F. de Haan, and P. F. Levelt

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 359–382, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-359-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-359-2016, 2016

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08 Feb 2016

Overview of the O3M SAF GOME-2 operational atmospheric composition and UV radiation data products and data availability

S. Hassinen, D. Balis, H. Bauer, M. Begoin, A. Delcloo, K. Eleftheratos, S. Gimeno Garcia, J. Granville, M. Grossi, N. Hao, P. Hedelt, F. Hendrick, M. Hess, K.-P. Heue, J. Hovila, H. Jønch-Sørensen, N. Kalakoski, A. Kauppi, S. Kiemle, L. Kins, M. E. Koukouli, J. Kujanpää, J.-C. Lambert, R. Lang, C. Lerot, D. Loyola, M. Pedergnana, G. Pinardi, F. Romahn, M. van Roozendael, R. Lutz, I. De Smedt, P. Stammes, W. Steinbrecht, J. Tamminen, N. Theys, L. G. Tilstra, O. N. E. Tuinder, P. Valks, C. Zerefos, W. Zimmer, and I. Zyrichidou

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 383–407, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-383-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-383-2016, 2016

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11 Feb 2016

Development and validation of satellite-based estimates of surface visibility

J. Brunner, R. B. Pierce, and A. Lenzen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 409–422, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-409-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-409-2016, 2016

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11 Feb 2016

A broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectrometer for aircraft measurements of glyoxal, methylglyoxal, nitrous acid, nitrogen dioxide, and water vapor

K.-E. Min, R. A. Washenfelder, W. P. Dubé, A. O. Langford, P. M. Edwards, K. J. Zarzana, J. Stutz, K. Lu, F. Rohrer, Y. Zhang, and S. S. Brown

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 423–440, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-423-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-423-2016, 2016

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11 Feb 2016

Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance (TOR) measurements from infrared spectra: extending the predictions to different years and different sites

Matteo Reggente, Ann M. Dillner, and Satoshi Takahama

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 441–454, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-441-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-441-2016, 2016

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12 Feb 2016

Measurement of aerosol optical depth and sub-visual cloud detection using the optical depth sensor (ODS)

D. Toledo, P. Rannou, J.-P. Pommereau, A. Sarkissian, and T. Foujols

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 455–467, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-455-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-455-2016, 2016

12 Feb 2016

Cloud radar with hybrid mode towards estimation of shape and orientation of ice crystals

A. Myagkov, P. Seifert, M. Bauer-Pfundstein, and U. Wandinger

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 469–489, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-469-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-469-2016, 2016

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12 Feb 2016

EARLINET Single Calculus Chain – technical – Part 1: Pre-processing of raw lidar data

Giuseppe D'Amico, Aldo Amodeo, Ina Mattis, Volker Freudenthaler, and Gelsomina Pappalardo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 491–507, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-491-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-491-2016, 2016

15 Feb 2016

A dual-inlet, single detector relaxed eddy accumulation system for long-term measurement of mercury flux

S. Osterwalder, J. Fritsche, C. Alewell, M. Schmutz, M. B. Nilsson, G. Jocher, J. Sommar, J. Rinne, and K. Bishop

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 509–524, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-509-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-509-2016, 2016

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16 Feb 2016

Evaluation of the Sequential Spot Sampler (S3) for time-resolved measurement of PM_2.5 sulfate and nitrate through lab and field measurements

A. Hecobian, A. Evanoski-Cole, A. Eiguren-Fernandez, A. P. Sullivan, G. S. Lewis, S. V. Hering, and J. L. Collett Jr.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 525–533, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-525-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-525-2016, 2016

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17 Feb 2016

Multi-sensor analysis of convective activity in central Italy during the HyMeX SOP 1.1

N. Roberto, E. Adirosi, L. Baldini, D. Casella, S. Dietrich, P. Gatlin, G. Panegrossi, M. Petracca, P. Sanò, and A. Tokay

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 535–552, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-535-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-535-2016, 2016

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17 Feb 2016

A two-channel thermal dissociation cavity ring-down spectrometer for the detection of ambient NO₂, RO₂NO₂ and RONO₂

J. Thieser, G. Schuster, J. Schuladen, G. J. Phillips, A. Reiffs, U. Parchatka, D. Pöhler, J. Lelieveld, and J. N. Crowley

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 553–576, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-553-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-553-2016, 2016

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22 Feb 2016

Retrieval of xCO₂ from ground-based mid-infrared (NDACC) solar absorption spectra and comparison to TCCON

Matthias Buschmann, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Vanessa Sherlock, Mathias Palm, Thorsten Warneke, and Justus Notholt

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 577–585, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-577-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-577-2016, 2016

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23 Feb 2016

A total sky cloud detection method using real clear sky background

Jun Yang, Qilong Min, Weitao Lu, Ying Ma, Wen Yao, Tianshu Lu, Juan Du, and Guangyi Liu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 587–597, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-587-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-587-2016, 2016

23 Feb 2016

Twin-cuvette measurement technique for investigation of dry deposition of O₃ and PAN to plant leaves under controlled humidity conditions

Shang Sun, Alexander Moravek, Lisa von der Heyden, Andreas Held, Matthias Sörgel, and Jürgen Kesselmeier

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 599–617, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-599-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-599-2016, 2016

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24 Feb 2016

Software to analyze the relationship between aerosol, clouds, and precipitation: SAMAC

S. Gagné, L. P. MacDonald, W. R. Leaitch, and J. R. Pierce

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 619–630, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-619-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-619-2016, 2016

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24 Feb 2016

The new sun-sky-lunar Cimel CE318-T multiband photometer – a comprehensive performance evaluation

África Barreto, Emilio Cuevas, María-José Granados-Muñoz, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Pedro M. Romero, Julian Gröbner, Natalia Kouremeti, Antonio F. Almansa, Tom Stone, Carlos Toledano, Roberto Román, Mikhail Sorokin, Brent Holben, Marius Canini, and Margarita Yela

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 631–654, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-631-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-631-2016, 2016

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26 Feb 2016

Piezoelectric crystal microbalance measurements of enthalpy of sublimation of C₂–C₉ dicarboxylic acids

F. Dirri, E. Palomba, A. Longobardo, and E. Zampetti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 655–668, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-655-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-655-2016, 2016

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29 Feb 2016

Improved retrieval of gas abundances from near-infrared solar FTIR spectra measured at the Karlsruhe TCCON station

M. Kiel, D. Wunch, P. O. Wennberg, G. C. Toon, F. Hase, and T. Blumenstock

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 669–682, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-669-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-669-2016, 2016

29 Feb 2016

Consistent evaluation of ACOS-GOSAT, BESD-SCIAMACHY, CarbonTracker, and MACC through comparisons to TCCON

Susan Kulawik, Debra Wunch, Christopher O'Dell, Christian Frankenberg, Maximilian Reuter, Tomohiro Oda, Frederic Chevallier, Vanessa Sherlock, Michael Buchwitz, Greg Osterman, Charles E. Miller, Paul O. Wennberg, David Griffith, Isamu Morino, Manvendra K. Dubey, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Justus Notholt, Frank Hase, Thorsten Warneke, Ralf Sussmann, John Robinson, Kimberly Strong, Matthias Schneider, Martine De Mazière, Kei Shiomi, Dietrich G. Feist, Laura T. Iraci, and Joyce Wolf

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 683–709, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-683-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-683-2016, 2016

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29 Feb 2016

Evaluation of cloud base height measurements from Ceilometer CL31 and MODIS satellite over Ahmedabad, India

Som Sharma, Rajesh Vaishnav, Munn V. Shukla, Prashant Kumar, Prateek Kumar, Pradeep K. Thapliyal, Shyam Lal, and Yashwant B. Acharya

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 711–719, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-711-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-711-2016, 2016

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29 Feb 2016

Retrieval of near-surface sulfur dioxide (SO₂) concentrations at a global scale using IASI satellite observations

Sophie Bauduin, Lieven Clarisse, Juliette Hadji-Lazaro, Nicolas Theys, Cathy Clerbaux, and Pierre-François Coheur

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 721–740, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-721-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-721-2016, 2016

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29 Feb 2016

Notably improved inversion of differential mobility particle sizer data obtained under conditions of fluctuating particle number concentrations

Bjarke Mølgaard, Jarno Vanhatalo, Pasi P. Aalto, Nønne L. Prisle, and Kaarle Hämeri

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 741–751, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-741-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-741-2016, 2016

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01 Mar 2016

From pixels to patches: a cloud classification method based on a bag of micro-structures

Qingyong Li, Zhen Zhang, Weitao Lu, Jun Yang, Ying Ma, and Wen Yao

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 753–764, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-753-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-753-2016, 2016

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02 Mar 2016

Validation of revised methane and nitrous oxide profiles from MIPAS–ENVISAT

Johannes Plieninger, Alexandra Laeng, Stefan Lossow, Thomas von Clarmann, Gabriele P. Stiller, Sylvia Kellmann, Andrea Linden, Michael Kiefer, Kaley A. Walker, Stefan Noël, Mark E. Hervig, Martin McHugh, Alyn Lambert, Joachim Urban, James W. Elkins, and Donal Murtagh

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 765–779, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-765-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-765-2016, 2016

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02 Mar 2016

Preliminary validation of the refractivity from the new radio occultation sounder GNOS/FY-3C

Mi Liao, Peng Zhang, Guang-Lin Yang, Yan-Meng Bi, Yan Liu, Wei-Hua Bai, Xiang-Guang Meng, Qi-Fei Du, and Yue-Qiang Sun

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 781–792, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-781-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-781-2016, 2016

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02 Mar 2016

Global cloud top height retrieval using SCIAMACHY limb spectra: model studies and first results

Kai-Uwe Eichmann, Luca Lelli, Christian von Savigny, Harjinder Sembhi, and John P. Burrows

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 793–815, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-793-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-793-2016, 2016

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03 Mar 2016

A generalised background correction algorithm for a Halo Doppler lidar and its application to data from Finland

Antti J. Manninen, Ewan J. O'Connor, Ville Vakkari, and Tuukka Petäjä

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 817–827, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-817-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-817-2016, 2016

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03 Mar 2016

Coded continuous wave meteor radar

Juha Vierinen, Jorge L. Chau, Nico Pfeffer, Matthias Clahsen, and Gunter Stober

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 829–839, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-829-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-829-2016, 2016

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03 Mar 2016

Modeling the Zeeman effect in high-altitude SSMIS channels for numerical weather prediction profiles: comparing a fast model and a line-by-line model

Richard Larsson, Mathias Milz, Peter Rayer, Roger Saunders, William Bell, Anna Booton, Stefan A. Buehler, Patrick Eriksson, and Viju O. John

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 841–857, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-841-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-841-2016, 2016

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04 Mar 2016

Aerosol effective density measurement using scanning mobility particle sizer and quartz crystal microbalance with the estimation of involved uncertainty

Bighnaraj Sarangi, Shankar G. Aggarwal, Deepak Sinha, and Prabhat K. Gupta

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 859–875, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-859-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-859-2016, 2016

04 Mar 2016

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Multi-instrument gravity-wave measurements over Tierra del Fuego and the Drake Passage – Part 1: Potential energies and vertical wavelengths from AIRS, COSMIC, HIRDLS, MLS-Aura, SAAMER, SABER and radiosondes

Corwin J. Wright, Neil P. Hindley, Andrew C. Moss, and Nicholas J. Mitchell

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 877–908, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-877-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-877-2016, 2016

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07 Mar 2016

Synergy of stereo cloud top height and ORAC optimal estimation cloud retrieval: evaluation and application to AATSR

Daniel Fisher, Caroline A. Poulsen, Gareth E. Thomas, and Jan-Peter Muller

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 909–928, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-909-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-909-2016, 2016

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07 Mar 2016

Controlled weather balloon ascents and descents for atmospheric research and climate monitoring

Andreas Kräuchi, Rolf Philipona, Gonzague Romanens, Dale F. Hurst, Emrys G. Hall, and Allen F. Jordan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 929–938, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-929-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-929-2016, 2016

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07 Mar 2016

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The airborne mass spectrometer AIMS – Part 1: AIMS-H₂O for UTLS water vapor measurements

Stefan Kaufmann, Christiane Voigt, Tina Jurkat, Troy Thornberry, David W. Fahey, Ru-Shan Gao, Romy Schlage, Dominik Schäuble, and Martin Zöger

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 939–953, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-939-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-939-2016, 2016

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08 Mar 2016

Imager-to-radiometer in-flight cross calibration: RSP radiometric comparison with airborne and satellite sensors

Joel McCorkel, Brian Cairns, and Andrzej Wasilewski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 955–962, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-955-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-955-2016, 2016

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08 Mar 2016

Development of a digital mobile solar tracker

Sunil Baidar, Natalie Kille, Ivan Ortega, Roman Sinreich, David Thomson, James Hannigan, and Rainer Volkamer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 963–972, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-963-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-963-2016, 2016

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08 Mar 2016

Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) cloud screening algorithms: validation against collocated MODIS and CALIOP data

Thomas E. Taylor, Christopher W. O'Dell, Christian Frankenberg, Philip T. Partain, Heather Q. Cronk, Andrey Savtchenko, Robert R. Nelson, Emily J. Rosenthal, Albert Y. Chang, Brenden Fisher, Gregory B. Osterman, Randy H. Pollock, David Crisp, Annmarie Eldering, and Michael R. Gunson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 973–989, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-973-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-973-2016, 2016

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09 Mar 2016

Real-time data acquisition of commercial microwave link networks for hydrometeorological applications

Christian Chwala, Felix Keis, and Harald Kunstmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 991–999, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-991-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-991-2016, 2016

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10 Mar 2016

EARLINET instrument intercomparison campaigns: overview on strategy and results

Ulla Wandinger, Volker Freudenthaler, Holger Baars, Aldo Amodeo, Ronny Engelmann, Ina Mattis, Silke Groß, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Aldo Giunta, Giuseppe D'Amico, Anatoli Chaikovsky, Fiodor Osipenko, Alexander Slesar, Doina Nicolae, Livio Belegante, Camelia Talianu, Ilya Serikov, Holger Linné, Friedhelm Jansen, Arnoud Apituley, Keith M. Wilson, Martin de Graaf, Thomas Trickl, Helmut Giehl, Mariana Adam, Adolfo Comerón, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard, Sergio Tomás, Diego Lange, Dhiraj Kumar, Manuel Pujadas, Francisco Molero, Alfonso J. Fernández, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, María José Granados-Muñoz, Jana Preißler, Frank Wagner, Michael Gausa, Ivan Grigorov, Dimitar Stoyanov, Marco Iarlori, Vincenco Rizi, Nicola Spinelli, Antonella Boselli, Xuan Wang, Teresa Lo Feudo, Maria Rita Perrone, Ferdinando De Tomasi, and Pasquale Burlizzi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1001–1023, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1001-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1001-2016, 2016

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14 Mar 2016

Size distribution of particle-associated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their implications for health

Yan Lyu, Tingting Xu, Xiang Li, Tiantao Cheng, Xin Yang, Xiaomin Sun, and Jianmin Chen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1025–1037, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1025-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1025-2016, 2016

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14 Mar 2016

Ground-based remote sensing scheme for monitoring aerosol–cloud interactions

Karolina Sarna and Herman W. J. Russchenberg

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1039–1050, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1039-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1039-2016, 2016

14 Mar 2016

Long-term validation of ESA operational retrieval (version 6.0) of MIPAS Envisat vertical profiles of methane, nitrous oxide, CFC11, and CFC12 using balloon-borne observations and trajectory matching

Andreas Engel, Harald Bönisch, Tim Schwarzenberger, Hans-Peter Haase, Katja Grunow, Jana Abalichin, and Stephan Sala

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1051–1062, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1051-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1051-2016, 2016

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15 Mar 2016

New temperature and pressure retrieval algorithm for high-resolution infrared solar occultation spectroscopy: analysis and validation against ACE-FTS and COSMIC

Kevin S. Olsen, Geoffrey C. Toon, Chris D. Boone, and Kimberly Strong

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1063–1082, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1063-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1063-2016, 2016

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15 Mar 2016

Calibration of a water vapour Raman lidar with a kite-based humidity sensor

Julien Totems and Patrick Chazette

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1083–1094, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1083-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1083-2016, 2016

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18 Mar 2016

Global stratospheric measurements of the isotopologues of methane from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier transform spectrometer

Eric M. Buzan, Chris A. Beale, Chris D. Boone, and Peter F. Bernath

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1095–1111, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1095-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1095-2016, 2016

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18 Mar 2016

A comparative study of aerosol microphysical properties retrieved from ground-based remote sensing and aircraft in situ measurements during a Saharan dust event

María José Granados-Muñoz, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Darrel Baumgardner, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Igor Veselovskii, Hassan Lyamani, Antonio Valenzuela, Francisco José Olmo, Gloria Titos, Javier Andrey, Anatoli Chaikovsky, Oleg Dubovik, Manuel Gil-Ojeda, and Lucas Alados-Arboledas

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1113–1133, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1113-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1113-2016, 2016

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18 Mar 2016

Detection of ground fog in mountainous areas from MODIS (Collection 051) daytime data using a statistical approach

Hans Martin Schulz, Boris Thies, Shih-Chieh Chang, and Jörg Bendix

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1135–1152, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1135-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1135-2016, 2016

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18 Mar 2016

Shortwave surface radiation network for observing small-scale cloud inhomogeneity fields

Bomidi Lakshmi Madhavan, John Kalisch, and Andreas Macke

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1153–1166, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1153-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1153-2016, 2016

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21 Mar 2016

Industrial SO₂ emission monitoring through a portable multichannel gas analyzer with an optimized retrieval algorithm

Youwen Sun, Cheng Liu, Pinhua Xie, Andreas Hartl, Kalok Chan, Yuan Tian, Wei Wang, Min Qin, Jianguo Liu, and Wenqing Liu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1167–1180, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1167-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1167-2016, 2016

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21 Mar 2016

Lidar-Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) for the retrieval of vertical aerosol properties from combined lidar/radiometer data: development and distribution in EARLINET

Anatoli Chaikovsky, Oleg Dubovik, Brent Holben, Andrey Bril, Philippe Goloub, Didier Tanré, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Ulla Wandinger, Ludmila Chaikovskaya, Sergey Denisov, Jan Grudo, Anton Lopatin, Yana Karol, Tatsiana Lapyonok, Vassilis Amiridis, Albert Ansmann, Arnoud Apituley, Lucas Allados-Arboledas, Ioannis Binietoglou, Antonella Boselli, Giuseppe D'Amico, Volker Freudenthaler, David Giles, María José Granados-Muñoz, Panayotis Kokkalis, Doina Nicolae, Sergey Oshchepkov, Alex Papayannis, Maria Rita Perrone, Alexander Pietruczuk, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard, Ilya Slutsker, Camelia Talianu, Ferdinando De Tomasi, Alexandra Tsekeri, Janet Wagner, and Xuan Wang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1181–1205, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1181-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1181-2016, 2016

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21 Mar 2016

Intercomparison of in situ water vapor balloon-borne measurements from Pico-SDLA H₂O and FLASH-B in the tropical UTLS

Mélanie Ghysels, Emmanuel D. Riviere, Sergey Khaykin, Clara Stoeffler, Nadir Amarouche, Jean-Pierre Pommereau, Gerhard Held, and Georges Durry

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1207–1219, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1207-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1207-2016, 2016

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23 Mar 2016

Comparison of nitrous oxide (N₂O) analyzers for high-precision measurements of atmospheric mole fractions

Benjamin Lebegue, Martina Schmidt, Michel Ramonet, Benoit Wastine, Camille Yver Kwok, Olivier Laurent, Sauveur Belviso, Ali Guemri, Carole Philippon, Jeremiah Smith, and Sebastien Conil

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1221–1238, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1221-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1221-2016, 2016

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23 Mar 2016

A new algorithm for detecting cloud height using OMPS/LP measurements

Zhong Chen, Matthew DeLand, and Pawan K. Bhartia

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1239–1246, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1239-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1239-2016, 2016

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23 Mar 2016

A new plant chamber facility, PLUS, coupled to the atmosphere simulation chamber SAPHIR

T. Hohaus, U. Kuhn, S. Andres, M. Kaminski, F. Rohrer, R. Tillmann, A. Wahner, R. Wegener, Z. Yu, and A. Kiendler-Scharr

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1247–1259, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1247-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1247-2016, 2016

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24 Mar 2016

The Aerosol Limb Imager: acousto-optic imaging of limb-scattered sunlight for stratospheric aerosol profiling

B. J. Elash, A. E. Bourassa, P. R. Loewen, N. D. Lloyd, and D. A. Degenstein

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1261–1277, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1261-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1261-2016, 2016

24 Mar 2016

The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: instrument design, calibration, and level 1 data processing – an overview

Rosemary Munro, Rüdiger Lang, Dieter Klaes, Gabriele Poli, Christian Retscher, Rasmus Lindstrot, Roger Huckle, Antoine Lacan, Michael Grzegorski, Andriy Holdak, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Jakob Livschitz, and Michael Eisinger

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1279–1301, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1279-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1279-2016, 2016

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30 Mar 2016

Statistical framework for estimating GNSS bias

Juha Vierinen, Anthea J. Coster, William C. Rideout, Philip J. Erickson, and Johannes Norberg

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1303–1312, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1303-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1303-2016, 2016

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30 Mar 2016

Re-evaluating the Frankfurt isothermal static diffusion chamber for ice nucleation

Jann Schrod, Anja Danielczok, Daniel Weber, Martin Ebert, Erik S. Thomson, and Heinz G. Bingemer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1313–1324, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1313-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1313-2016, 2016

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30 Mar 2016

Challenges associated with the sampling and analysis of organosulfur compounds in air using real-time PTR-ToF-MS and offline GC-FID

Véronique Perraud, Simone Meinardi, Donald R. Blake, and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1325–1340, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1325-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1325-2016, 2016

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31 Mar 2016

Optimization of an enclosed gas analyzer sampling system for measuring eddy covariance fluxes of H₂O and CO₂

Stefan Metzger, George Burba, Sean P. Burns, Peter D. Blanken, Jiahong Li, Hongyan Luo, and Rommel C. Zulueta

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1341–1359, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1341-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1341-2016, 2016

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31 Mar 2016

Dimensioning IRGA gas sampling systems: laboratory and field experiments

Marc Aubinet, Lilian Joly, Denis Loustau, Anne De Ligne, Henri Chopin, Julien Cousin, Nicolas Chauvin, Thomas Decarpenterie, and Patrick Gross

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1361–1367, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1361-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1361-2016, 2016

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01 Apr 2016

Profiling the PM_2.5 mass concentration vertical distribution in the boundary layer

Zongming Tao, Zhenzhu Wang, Shijun Yang, Huihui Shan, Xiaomin Ma, Hui Zhang, Sugui Zhao, Dong Liu, Chenbo Xie, and Yingjian Wang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1369–1376, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1369-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1369-2016, 2016

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01 Apr 2016

GOCI Yonsei Aerosol Retrieval (YAER) algorithm and validation during the DRAGON-NE Asia 2012 campaign

Myungje Choi, Jhoon Kim, Jaehwa Lee, Mijin Kim, Young-Je Park, Ukkyo Jeong, Woogyung Kim, Hyunkee Hong, Brent Holben, Thomas F. Eck, Chul H. Song, Jae-Hyun Lim, and Chang-Keun Song

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1377–1398, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1377-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1377-2016, 2016

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01 Apr 2016

Observations of water vapor mixing ratio profile and flux in the Tibetan Plateau based on the lidar technique

Songhua Wu, Guangyao Dai, Xiaoquan Song, Bingyi Liu, and Liping Liu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1399–1413, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1399-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1399-2016, 2016

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01 Apr 2016

Validation of TANSO-FTS/GOSAT XCO₂ and XCH₄ glint mode retrievals using TCCON data from near-ocean sites

Minqiang Zhou, Bart Dils, Pucai Wang, Rob Detmers, Yukio Yoshida, Christopher W. O'Dell, Dietrich G. Feist, Voltaire Almario Velazco, Matthias Schneider, and Martine De Mazière

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1415–1430, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1415-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1415-2016, 2016

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04 Apr 2016

Investigation of potential interferences in the detection of atmospheric RO_x radicals by laser-induced fluorescence under dark conditions

Hendrik Fuchs, Zhaofeng Tan, Andreas Hofzumahaus, Sebastian Broch, Hans-Peter Dorn, Frank Holland, Christopher Künstler, Sebastian Gomm, Franz Rohrer, Stephanie Schrade, Ralf Tillmann, and Andreas Wahner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1431–1447, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1431-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1431-2016, 2016

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04 Apr 2016

Characterization of the mass-dependent transmission efficiency of a CIMS

Martin Heinritzi, Mario Simon, Gerhard Steiner, Andrea C. Wagner, Andreas Kürten, Armin Hansel, and Joachim Curtius

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1449–1460, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1449-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1449-2016, 2016

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04 Apr 2016

A fast SWIR imager for observations of transient features in OH airglow

Patrick Hannawald, Carsten Schmidt, Sabine Wüst, and Michael Bittner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1461–1472, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1461-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1461-2016, 2016

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05 Apr 2016

Revisiting benzene cluster cations for the chemical ionization of dimethyl sulfide and select volatile organic compounds

Michelle J. Kim, Matthew C. Zoerb, Nicole R. Campbell, Kathryn J. Zimmermann, Byron W. Blomquist, Barry J. Huebert, and Timothy H. Bertram

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1473–1484, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1473-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1473-2016, 2016

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06 Apr 2016

Stratospheric CH₄ and CO₂ profiles derived from SCIAMACHY solar occultation measurements

Stefan Noël, Klaus Bramstedt, Michael Hilker, Patricia Liebing, Johannes Plieninger, Max Reuter, Alexei Rozanov, Christopher E. Sioris, Heinrich Bovensmann, and John P. Burrows

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1485–1503, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1485-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1485-2016, 2016

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06 Apr 2016

Constraining the sensitivity of iodide adduct chemical ionization mass spectrometry to multifunctional organic molecules using the collision limit and thermodynamic stability of iodide ion adducts

Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker, Siddarth Iyer, Claudia Mohr, Ben H. Lee, Emma L. D'Ambro, Theo Kurtén, and Joel A. Thornton

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1505–1512, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1505-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1505-2016, 2016

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06 Apr 2016

The Austrian radiation monitoring network ARAD – best practice and added value

Marc Olefs, Dietmar J. Baumgartner, Friedrich Obleitner, Christoph Bichler, Ulrich Foelsche, Helga Pietsch, Harald E. Rieder, Philipp Weihs, Florian Geyer, Thomas Haiden, and Wolfgang Schöner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1513–1531, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1513-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1513-2016, 2016

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07 Apr 2016

Validation of GOME-2/Metop total column water vapour with ground-based and in situ measurements

Niilo Kalakoski, Jukka Kujanpää, Viktoria Sofieva, Johanna Tamminen, Margherita Grossi, and Pieter Valks

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1533–1544, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1533-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1533-2016, 2016

07 Apr 2016

Intercomparison of 15 aerodynamic particle size spectrometers (APS 3321): uncertainties in particle sizing and number size distribution

Sascha Pfeifer, Thomas Müller, Kay Weinhold, Nadezda Zikova, Sebastiao Martins dos Santos, Angela Marinoni, Oliver F. Bischof, Carsten Kykal, Ludwig Ries, Frank Meinhardt, Pasi Aalto, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, and Alfred Wiedensohler

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1545–1551, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1545-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1545-2016, 2016

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08 Apr 2016

Quality assessment of solar UV irradiance measured with array spectroradiometers

Luca Egli, Julian Gröbner, Gregor Hülsen, Luciano Bachmann, Mario Blumthaler, Jimmy Dubard, Marina Khazova, Richard Kift, Kees Hoogendijk, Antonio Serrano, Andrew Smedley, and José-Manuel Vilaplana

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1553–1567, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1553-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1553-2016, 2016

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11 Apr 2016

Organic and inorganic decomposition products from the thermal desorption of atmospheric particles

Brent J. Williams, Yaping Zhang, Xiaochen Zuo, Raul E. Martinez, Michael J. Walker, Nathan M. Kreisberg, Allen H. Goldstein, Kenneth S. Docherty, and Jose L. Jimenez

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1569–1586, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1569-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1569-2016, 2016

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11 Apr 2016

MODIS Collection 6 shortwave-derived cloud phase classification algorithm and comparisons with CALIOP

Benjamin Marchant, Steven Platnick, Kerry Meyer, G. Thomas Arnold, and Jérôme Riedi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1587–1599, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1587-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1587-2016, 2016

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12 Apr 2016

Calibration methods for rotating shadowband irradiometers and optimizing the calibration duration

Wilko Jessen, Stefan Wilbert, Bijan Nouri, Norbert Geuder, and Holger Fritz

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1601–1612, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1601-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1601-2016, 2016

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12 Apr 2016

Evaluation of two Vaisala RS92 radiosonde solar radiative dry bias correction algorithms

Andrew M. Dzambo, David D. Turner, and Eli J. Mlawer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1613–1626, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1613-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1613-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

The detection of carbon dioxide leaks using quasi-tomographic laser absorption spectroscopy measurements in variable wind

Zachary H. Levine, Adam L. Pintar, Jeremy T. Dobler, Nathan Blume, Michael Braun, T. Scott Zaccheo, and Timothy G. Pernini

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1627–1636, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1627-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1627-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

An automatic precipitation-phase distinction algorithm for optical disdrometer data over the global ocean

Jörg Burdanowitz, Christian Klepp, and Stephan Bakan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1637–1652, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1637-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1637-2016, 2016

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13 Apr 2016

Lidar arc scan uncertainty reduction through scanning geometry optimization

Hui Wang, Rebecca J. Barthelmie, Sara C. Pryor, and Gareth. Brown

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1653–1669, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1653-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1653-2016, 2016

15 Apr 2016

The potential of clear-sky carbon dioxide satellite retrievals

Robert R. Nelson, Christopher W. O'Dell, Thomas E. Taylor, Lukas Mandrake, and Mike Smyth

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1671–1684, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1671-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1671-2016, 2016

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15 Apr 2016

Interannual variability of temperature in the UTLS region over Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna river basin based on COSMIC GNSS RO data

Khandu, Joseph L. Awange, and Ehsan Forootan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1685–1699, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1685-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1685-2016, 2016

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18 Apr 2016

3-D water vapor field in the atmospheric boundary layer observed with scanning differential absorption lidar

Florian Späth, Andreas Behrendt, Shravan Kumar Muppa, Simon Metzendorf, Andrea Riede, and Volker Wulfmeyer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1701–1720, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1701-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1701-2016, 2016

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20 Apr 2016

LOAC: a small aerosol optical counter/sizer for ground-based and balloon measurements of the size distribution and nature of atmospheric particles – Part 1: Principle of measurements and instrument evaluation

Jean-Baptiste Renard, François Dulac, Gwenaël Berthet, Thibaut Lurton, Damien Vignelles, Fabrice Jégou, Thierry Tonnelier, Matthieu Jeannot, Benoit Couté, Rony Akiki, Nicolas Verdier, Marc Mallet, François Gensdarmes, Patrick Charpentier, Samuel Mesmin, Vincent Duverger, Jean-Charles Dupont, Thierry Elias, Vincent Crenn, Jean Sciare, Paul Zieger, Matthew Salter, Tjarda Roberts, Jérôme Giacomoni, Matthieu Gobbi, Eric Hamonou, Haraldur Olafsson, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Claude Camy-Peyret, Christophe Mazel, Thierry Décamps, Martin Piringer, Jérémy Surcin, and Daniel Daugeron

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1721–1742, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1721-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1721-2016, 2016

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20 Apr 2016

Cirrus cloud optical and microphysical property retrievals from eMAS during SEAC⁴RS using bi-spectral reflectance measurements within the 1.88  µm water vapor absorption band

Kerry Meyer, Steven Platnick, G. Thomas Arnold, Robert E. Holz, Paolo Veglio, John Yorks, and Chenxi Wang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1743–1753, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1743-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1743-2016, 2016

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22 Apr 2016

Measuring droplet fall speed with a high-speed camera: indoor accuracy and potential outdoor applications

Cheng-Ku Yu, Pei-Rong Hsieh, Sandra E. Yuter, Lin-Wen Cheng, Chia-Lun Tsai, Che-Yu Lin, and Ying Chen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1755–1766, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1755-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1755-2016, 2016

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25 Apr 2016

The automated multiwavelength Raman polarization and water-vapor lidar Polly^XT: the neXT generation

Ronny Engelmann, Thomas Kanitz, Holger Baars, Birgit Heese, Dietrich Althausen, Annett Skupin, Ulla Wandinger, Mika Komppula, Iwona S. Stachlewska, Vassilis Amiridis, Eleni Marinou, Ina Mattis, Holger Linné, and Albert Ansmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1767–1784, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1767-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1767-2016, 2016

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26 Apr 2016

Uncertainties in cloud phase and optical thickness retrievals from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC)

Kerry Meyer, Yuekui Yang, and Steven Platnick

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1785–1797, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1785-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1785-2016, 2016

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26 Apr 2016

Dead time effect on the Brewer measurements: correction and estimated uncertainties

Ilias Fountoulakis, Alberto Redondas, Alkiviadis F. Bais, Juan José Rodriguez-Franco, Konstantinos Fragkos, and Alexander Cede

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1799–1816, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1799-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1799-2016, 2016

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27 Apr 2016

A microbolometer-based far infrared radiometer to study thin ice clouds in the Arctic

Quentin Libois, Christian Proulx, Liviu Ivanescu, Laurence Coursol, Ludovick S. Pelletier, Yacine Bouzid, Francesco Barbero, Éric Girard, and Jean-Pierre Blanchet

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1817–1832, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1817-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1817-2016, 2016

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27 Apr 2016

Measuring the morphology and density of internally mixed black carbon with SP2 and VTDMA: new insight into the absorption enhancement of black carbon in the atmosphere

Yuxuan Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Yafang Cheng, Hang Su, Simonas Kecorius, Zhibin Wang, Zhijun Wu, Min Hu, Tong Zhu, Alfred Wiedensohler, and Kebin He

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1833–1843, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1833-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1833-2016, 2016

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28 Apr 2016

The Pilatus unmanned aircraft system for lower atmospheric research

Gijs de Boer, Scott Palo, Brian Argrow, Gabriel LoDolce, James Mack, Ru-Shan Gao, Hagen Telg, Cameron Trussel, Joshua Fromm, Charles N. Long, Geoff Bland, James Maslanik, Beat Schmid, and Terry Hock

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1845–1857, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1845-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1845-2016, 2016

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28 Apr 2016

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Bayesian statistical ionospheric tomography improved by incorporating ionosonde measurements

Johannes Norberg, Ilkka I. Virtanen, Lassi Roininen, Juha Vierinen, Mikko Orispää, Kirsti Kauristie, and Markku S. Lehtinen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1859–1869, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1859-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1859-2016, 2016

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28 Apr 2016

Retrieval of aerosol optical depth in the visible range with a Brewer spectrophotometer in Athens

Henri Diémoz, Kostas Eleftheratos, Stelios Kazadzis, Vassilis Amiridis, and Christos S. Zerefos

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1871–1888, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1871-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1871-2016, 2016

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29 Apr 2016

A sensitivity study on the retrieval of aerosol vertical profiles using the oxygen A-band

Santo Fedele Colosimo, Vijay Natraj, Stanley P. Sander, and Jochen Stutz

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1889–1905, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1889-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1889-2016, 2016

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29 Apr 2016

The airborne mass spectrometer AIMS – Part 2: Measurements of trace gases with stratospheric or tropospheric origin in the UTLS

Tina Jurkat, Stefan Kaufmann, Christiane Voigt, Dominik Schäuble, Philipp Jeßberger, and Helmut Ziereis

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1907–1923, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1907-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1907-2016, 2016

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29 Apr 2016

A new method for estimating aerosol mass flux in the urban surface layer using LAS technology

Renmin Yuan, Tao Luo, Jianning Sun, Hao Liu, Yunfei Fu, and Zhien Wang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1925–1937, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1925-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1925-2016, 2016

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29 Apr 2016

Influence of the melting temperature on the measurement of the mass concentration and size distribution of black carbon in snow

Takeshi Kinase, Kazuyuki Kita, Yoshimi Tsukagawa-Ogawa, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, and Hiroto Kawashima

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1939–1945, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1939-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1939-2016, 2016

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02 May 2016

The performance and the characterization of laser ablation aerosol particle time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LAAP-ToF-MS)

Rachel Gemayel, Stig Hellebust, Brice Temime-Roussel, Nathalie Hayeck, Johannes T. Van Elteren, Henri Wortham, and Sasho Gligorovski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1947–1959, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1947-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1947-2016, 2016

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03 May 2016

Methane cross-validation between three Fourier transform spectrometers: SCISAT ACE-FTS, GOSAT TANSO-FTS, and ground-based FTS measurements in the Canadian high Arctic

Gerrit Holl, Kaley A. Walker, Stephanie Conway, Naoko Saitoh, Chris D. Boone, Kimberly Strong, and James R. Drummond

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1961–1980, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1961-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1961-2016, 2016

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03 May 2016

A development of cloud top height retrieval using thermal infrared spectra observed with GOSAT and comparison with CALIPSO data

Yu Someya, Ryoichi Imasu, Naoko Saitoh, Yoshifumi Ota, and Kei Shiomi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1981–1992, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1981-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1981-2016, 2016

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03 May 2016

Evaluation of three lidar scanning strategies for turbulence measurements

Jennifer F. Newman, Petra M. Klein, Sonia Wharton, Ameya Sathe, Timothy A. Bonin, Phillip B. Chilson, and Andreas Muschinski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1993–2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1993-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1993-2016, 2016

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04 May 2016

Design and characterization of specMACS, a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager

Florian Ewald, Tobias Kölling, Andreas Baumgartner, Tobias Zinner, and Bernhard Mayer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2015–2042, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2015-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2015-2016, 2016

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04 May 2016

Approaches to radar reflectivity bias correction to improve rainfall estimation in Korea

Cheol-Hwan You, Mi-Young Kang, Dong-In Lee, and Jung-Tae Lee

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2043–2053, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2043-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2043-2016, 2016

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09 May 2016

The impact of the ozone effective temperature on satellite validation using the Dobson spectrophotometer network

Maria Elissavet Koukouli, Marina Zara, Christophe Lerot, Konstantinos Fragkos, Dimitris Balis, Michel van Roozendael, Marcus Antonius Franciscus Allart, and Ronald Johannes van der A

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2055–2065, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2055-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2055-2016, 2016

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10 May 2016

MIPAS database: new HNO₃ line parameters at 7.6  µm validated with MIPAS satellite measurements

Agnès Perrin, Jean-Marie Flaud, Marco Ridolfi, Jean Vander Auwera, and Massimo Carlotti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2067–2076, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2067-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2067-2016, 2016

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11 May 2016

Polarimetric remote sensing in oxygen A and B bands: sensitivity study and information content analysis for vertical profile of aerosols

Shouguo Ding, Jun Wang, and Xiaoguang Xu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2077–2092, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2077-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2077-2016, 2016

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11 May 2016

Development of automated preparation system for isotopocule analysis of N₂O in various air samples

Sakae Toyoda and Naohiro Yoshida

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2093–2101, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2093-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2093-2016, 2016

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12 May 2016

Ash and ice clouds during the Mt Kelud February 2014 eruption as interpreted from IASI and AVHRR/3 observations

Arve Kylling

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2103–2117, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2103-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2103-2016, 2016

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13 May 2016

Algorithm update of the GOSAT/TANSO-FTS thermal infrared CO₂ product (version 1) and validation of the UTLS CO₂ data using CONTRAIL measurements

Naoko Saitoh, Shuhei Kimoto, Ryo Sugimura, Ryoichi Imasu, Shuji Kawakami, Kei Shiomi, Akihiko Kuze, Toshinobu Machida, Yousuke Sawa, and Hidekazu Matsueda

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2119–2134, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2119-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2119-2016, 2016

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13 May 2016

Detection of dimethylamine in the low pptv range using nitrate chemical ionization atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight (CI-APi-TOF) mass spectrometry

Mario Simon, Martin Heinritzi, Stephan Herzog, Markus Leiminger, Federico Bianchi, Arnaud Praplan, Josef Dommen, Joachim Curtius, and Andreas Kürten

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2135–2145, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2135-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2135-2016, 2016

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13 May 2016

Quantification and parametrization of non-linearity effects by higher-order sensitivity terms in scattered light differential optical absorption spectroscopy

Jānis Puķīte and Thomas Wagner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2147–2177, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2147-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2147-2016, 2016

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17 May 2016

An optical particle size spectrometer for aircraft-borne measurements in IAGOS-CARIBIC

Markus Hermann, Andreas Weigelt, Denise Assmann, Sascha Pfeifer, Thomas Müller, Thomas Conrath, Jens Voigtländer, Jost Heintzenberg, Alfred Wiedensohler, Bengt G. Martinsson, Terry Deshler, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, and Andreas Zahn

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2179–2194, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2179-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2179-2016, 2016

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18 May 2016

Detection and quantification of gas-phase oxidized mercury compounds by GC/MS

Colleen P. Jones, Seth N. Lyman, Daniel A. Jaffe, Tanner Allen, and Trevor L. O'Neil

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2195–2205, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2195-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2195-2016, 2016

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18 May 2016

A review of sources of systematic errors and uncertainties in observations and simulations at 183 GHz

Hélène Brogniez, Stephen English, Jean-François Mahfouf, Andreas Behrendt, Wesley Berg, Sid Boukabara, Stefan Alexander Buehler, Philippe Chambon, Antonia Gambacorta, Alan Geer, William Ingram, E. Robert Kursinski, Marco Matricardi, Tatyana A. Odintsova, Vivienne H. Payne, Peter W. Thorne, Mikhail Yu. Tretyakov, and Junhong Wang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2207–2221, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2207-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2207-2016, 2016

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20 May 2016

Comparison of XCO abundances from the Total Carbon Column Observing Network and the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change measured in Karlsruhe

Matthäus Kiel, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, and Oliver Kirner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2223–2239, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2223-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2223-2016, 2016

20 May 2016

A microwave satellite water vapour column retrieval for polar winter conditions

Christopher Perro, Glen Lesins, Thomas J. Duck, and Maria Cadeddu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2241–2252, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2241-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2241-2016, 2016

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23 May 2016

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Retrieving atmospheric turbulence information from regular commercial aircraft using Mode-S and ADS-B

Jacek M. Kopeć, Kamil Kwiatkowski, Siebren de Haan, and Szymon P. Malinowski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2253–2265, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2253-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2253-2016, 2016

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24 May 2016

Synergy between middle infrared and millimeter-wave limb sounding of atmospheric temperature and minor constituents

Ugo Cortesi, Samuele Del Bianco, Simone Ceccherini, Marco Gai, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Elisa Castelli, Hermann Oelhaf, Wolfgang Woiwode, Michael Höpfner, and Daniel Gerber

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2267–2289, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2267-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2267-2016, 2016

24 May 2016

Atmospheric mercury measurements onboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft

Franz Slemr, Andreas Weigelt, Ralf Ebinghaus, Hans H. Kock, Jan Bödewadt, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Armin Rauthe-Schöch, Stefan Weber, Markus Hermann, Julia Becker, Andreas Zahn, and Bengt Martinsson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2291–2302, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2291-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2291-2016, 2016

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25 May 2016

Addition of a channel for XCO observations to a portable FTIR spectrometer for greenhouse gas measurements

Frank Hase, Matthias Frey, Matthäus Kiel, Thomas Blumenstock, Roland Harig, Axel Keens, and Johannes Orphal

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2303–2313, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2303-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2303-2016, 2016

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25 May 2016

Consistency and quality assessment of the Metop-A/IASI and Metop-B/IASI operational trace gas products (O₃, CO, N₂O, CH₄, and CO₂) in the subtropical North Atlantic

Omaira Elena García, Eliezer Sepúlveda, Matthias Schneider, Frank Hase, Thomas August, Thomas Blumenstock, Sven Kühl, Rosemary Munro, Ángel Jesús Gómez-Peláez, Tim Hultberg, Alberto Redondas, Sabine Barthlott, Andreas Wiegele, Yenny González, and Esther Sanromá

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2315–2333, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2315-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2315-2016, 2016

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26 May 2016

An automated nowcasting model of significant instability events in the flight terminal area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gutemberg Borges França, Manoel Valdonel de Almeida, and Alessana C. Rosette

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2335–2344, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2335-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2335-2016, 2016

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27 May 2016

Evaluation of multifrequency range imaging technique implemented on the Chung–Li VHF atmospheric radar

Jenn-Shyong Chen, Shih-Chiao Tsai, Ching-Lun Su, and Yen-Hsyang Chu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2345–2355, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2345-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2345-2016, 2016

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30 May 2016

OCRA radiometric cloud fractions for GOME-2 on MetOp-A/B

Ronny Lutz, Diego Loyola, Sebastián Gimeno García, and Fabian Romahn

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2357–2379, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2357-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2357-2016, 2016

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31 May 2016

Rugged optical mirrors for Fourier transform spectrometers operated in harsh environments

Dietrich G. Feist, Sabrina G. Arnold, Frank Hase, and Dirk Ponge

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2381–2391, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2381-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2381-2016, 2016

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01 Jun 2016

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High spatial resolution imaging of methane and other trace gases with the airborne Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES)

Glynn C. Hulley, Riley M. Duren, Francesca M. Hopkins, Simon J. Hook, Nick Vance, Pierre Guillevic, William R. Johnson, Bjorn T. Eng, Jonathan M. Mihaly, Veljko M. Jovanovic, Seth L. Chazanoff, Zak K. Staniszewski, Le Kuai, John Worden, Christian Frankenberg, Gerardo Rivera, Andrew D. Aubrey, Charles E. Miller, Nabin K. Malakar, Juan M. Sánchez Tomás, and Kendall T. Holmes

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2393–2408, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2393-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2393-2016, 2016

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01 Jun 2016

HOAPS and ERA-Interim precipitation over the sea: validation against shipboard in situ measurements

Karl Bumke, Gert König-Langlo, Julian Kinzel, and Marc Schröder

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2409–2423, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2409-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2409-2016, 2016

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01 Jun 2016

Retrieval algorithm for rainfall mapping from microwave links in a cellular communication network

Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, and Remko Uijlenhoet

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2425–2444, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2425-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2425-2016, 2016

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02 Jun 2016

Update on GOSAT TANSO-FTS performance, operations, and data products after more than 6 years in space

Akihiko Kuze, Hiroshi Suto, Kei Shiomi, Shuji Kawakami, Makoto Tanaka, Yoko Ueda, Akira Deguchi, Jun Yoshida, Yoshifumi Yamamoto, Fumie Kataoka, Thomas E. Taylor, and Henry L. Buijs

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2445–2461, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2445-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2445-2016, 2016

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03 Jun 2016

Monitoring and tracking the trans-Pacific transport of aerosols using multi-satellite aerosol optical depth composites

Aaron R. Naeger, Pawan Gupta, Bradley T. Zavodsky, and Kevin M. McGrath

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2463–2482, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2463-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2463-2016, 2016

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07 Jun 2016

HONO measurement by differential photolysis

Chris Reed, Charlotte A. Brumby, Leigh R. Crilley, Louisa J. Kramer, William J. Bloss, Paul W. Seakins, James D. Lee, and Lucy J. Carpenter

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2483–2495, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2483-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2483-2016, 2016

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08 Jun 2016

Ground-based assessment of the bias and long-term stability of 14 limb and occultation ozone profile data records

Daan Hubert, Jean-Christopher Lambert, Tijl Verhoelst, José Granville, Arno Keppens, Jean-Luc Baray, Adam E. Bourassa, Ugo Cortesi, Doug A. Degenstein, Lucien Froidevaux, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Karl W. Hoppel, Bryan J. Johnson, Erkki Kyrölä, Thierry Leblanc, Günter Lichtenberg, Marion Marchand, C. Thomas McElroy, Donal Murtagh, Hideaki Nakane, Thierry Portafaix, Richard Querel, James M. Russell III, Jacobo Salvador, Herman G. J. Smit, Kerstin Stebel, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Kevin B. Strawbridge, René Stübi, Daan P. J. Swart, Ghassan Taha, David W. Tarasick, Anne M. Thompson, Joachim Urban, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Roeland Van Malderen, Peter von der Gathen, Kaley A. Walker, Elian Wolfram, and Joseph M. Zawodny

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2497–2534, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016, 2016

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09 Jun 2016

Return glider radiosonde for in situ upper-air research measurements

Andreas Kräuchi and Rolf Philipona

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2535–2544, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2535-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2535-2016, 2016

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09 Jun 2016

A two-dimensional Stockwell transform for gravity wave analysis of AIRS measurements

Neil P. Hindley, Nathan D. Smith, Corwin J. Wright, D. Andrew S. Rees, and Nicholas J. Mitchell

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2545–2565, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2545-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2545-2016, 2016

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10 Jun 2016

High-resolution tropospheric carbon monoxide profiles retrieved from CrIS and TROPOMI

Dejian Fu, Kevin W. Bowman, Helen M. Worden, Vijay Natraj, John R. Worden, Shanshan Yu, Pepijn Veefkind, Ilse Aben, Jochen Landgraf, Larrabee Strow, and Yong Han

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2567–2579, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2567-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2567-2016, 2016

17 Jun 2016

Application of an online ion-chromatography-based instrument for gradient flux measurements of speciated nitrogen and sulfur

Ian C. Rumsey and John T. Walker

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2581–2592, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2581-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2581-2016, 2016

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17 Jun 2016

New and improved infrared absorption cross sections for chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22)

Jeremy J. Harrison

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2593–2601, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2593-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2593-2016, 2016

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17 Jun 2016

Measurements of greenhouse gases at Beromünster tall-tower station in Switzerland

Tesfaye Ayalneh Berhanu, Ece Satar, Rudiger Schanda, Peter Nyfeler, Hanspeter Moret, Dominik Brunner, Brian Oney, and Markus Leuenberger

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2603–2614, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2603-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2603-2016, 2016

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21 Jun 2016

An automated baseline correction protocol for infrared spectra of atmospheric aerosols collected on polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) filters

Adele Kuzmiakova, Ann M. Dillner, and Satoshi Takahama

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2615–2631, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2615-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2615-2016, 2016

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21 Jun 2016

Differential absorption radar techniques: water vapor retrievals

Luis Millán, Matthew Lebsock, Nathaniel Livesey, and Simone Tanelli

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2633–2646, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2633-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2633-2016, 2016

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23 Jun 2016

Nitrogen dioxide observations from the Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GeoTASO) airborne instrument: Retrieval algorithm and measurements during DISCOVER-AQ Texas 2013

Caroline R. Nowlan, Xiong Liu, James W. Leitch, Kelly Chance, Gonzalo González Abad, Cheng Liu, Peter Zoogman, Joshua Cole, Thomas Delker, William Good, Frank Murcray, Lyle Ruppert, Daniel Soo, Melanie B. Follette-Cook, Scott J. Janz, Matthew G. Kowalewski, Christopher P. Loughner, Kenneth E. Pickering, Jay R. Herman, Melinda R. Beaver, Russell W. Long, James J. Szykman, Laura M. Judd, Paul Kelley, Winston T. Luke, Xinrong Ren, and Jassim A. Al-Saadi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2647–2668, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2647-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2647-2016, 2016

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24 Jun 2016

Water vapor inhibits hydrogen sulfide detection in pulsed fluorescence sulfur monitors

Anders B. Bluhme, Jonas L. Ingemar, Carl Meusinger, and Matthew S. Johnson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2669–2673, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2669-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2669-2016, 2016

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24 Jun 2016

Exploring the potential of the RPA system SUMO for multipurpose boundary-layer missions during the BLLAST campaign

Joachim Reuder, Line Båserud, Marius O. Jonassen, Stephan T. Kral, and Martin Müller

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2675–2688, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2675-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2675-2016, 2016

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28 Jun 2016

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Increasing the accuracy and temporal resolution of two-filter radon–222 measurements by correcting for the instrument response

Alan D. Griffiths, Scott D. Chambers, Alastair G. Williams, and Sylvester Werczynski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2689–2707, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2689-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2689-2016, 2016

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29 Jun 2016

A new high-transmission inlet for the Caltech nano-RDMA for size distribution measurements of sub-3 nm ions at ambient concentrations

Alessandro Franchin, Andy Downard, Juha Kangasluoma, Tuomo Nieminen, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Gerhard Steiner, Hanna E. Manninen, Tuukka Petäjä, Richard C. Flagan, and Markku Kulmala

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2709–2720, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2709-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2709-2016, 2016

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29 Jun 2016

A miniDOAS instrument optimised for ammonia field measurements

Jörg Sintermann, Klaus Dietrich, Christoph Häni, Michael Bell, Markus Jocher, and Albrecht Neftel

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2721–2734, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2721-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2721-2016, 2016

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01 Jul 2016

A high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer utilizing hydronium ions (H₃O⁺ ToF-CIMS) for measurements of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere

Bin Yuan, Abigail Koss, Carsten Warneke, Jessica B. Gilman, Brian M. Lerner, Harald Stark, and Joost A. de Gouw

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2735–2752, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2735-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2735-2016, 2016

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04 Jul 2016

The STRatospheric Estimation Algorithm from Mainz (STREAM): estimating stratospheric NO₂ from nadir-viewing satellites by weighted convolution

Steffen Beirle, Christoph Hörmann, Patrick Jöckel, Song Liu, Marloes Penning de Vries, Andrea Pozzer, Holger Sihler, Pieter Valks, and Thomas Wagner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2753–2779, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2753-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2753-2016, 2016

06 Jul 2016

The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN): an instrument to investigate ice nucleation

Sarvesh Garimella, Thomas Bjerring Kristensen, Karolina Ignatius, Andre Welti, Jens Voigtländer, Gourihar R. Kulkarni, Frank Sagan, Gregory Lee Kok, James Dorsey, Leonid Nichman, Daniel Alexander Rothenberg, Michael Rösch, Amélie Catharina Ruth Kirchgäßner, Russell Ladkin, Heike Wex, Theodore W. Wilson, Luis Antonio Ladino, Jon P. D. Abbatt, Olaf Stetzer, Ulrike Lohmann, Frank Stratmann, and Daniel James Cziczo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2781–2795, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2781-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2781-2016, 2016

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07 Jul 2016

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (SAO OMPS) formaldehyde retrieval

Gonzalo González Abad, Alexander Vasilkov, Colin Seftor, Xiong Liu, and Kelly Chance

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2797–2812, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2797-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2797-2016, 2016

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07 Jul 2016

Top-of-the-atmosphere shortwave flux estimation from satellite observations: an empirical neural network approach applied with data from the A-train constellation

Pawan Gupta, Joanna Joiner, Alexander Vasilkov, and Pawan K. Bhartia

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2813–2826, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2813-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2813-2016, 2016

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07 Jul 2016

Measurement of OH reactivity by laser flash photolysis coupled with laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

Daniel Stone, Lisa K. Whalley, Trevor Ingham, Peter M. Edwards, Danny R. Cryer, Charlotte A. Brumby, Paul W. Seakins, and Dwayne E. Heard

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2827–2844, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2827-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2827-2016, 2016

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07 Jul 2016

Accomplishments of the MUSICA project to provide accurate, long-term, global and high-resolution observations of tropospheric {H₂O,δD} pairs – a review

Matthias Schneider, Andreas Wiegele, Sabine Barthlott, Yenny González, Emanuel Christner, Christoph Dyroff, Omaira E. García, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, Eliezer Sepúlveda, Gizaw Mengistu Tsidu, Samuel Takele Kenea, Sergio Rodríguez, and Javier Andrey

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2845–2875, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2845-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2845-2016, 2016

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08 Jul 2016

Joint retrieval of aerosol and water-leaving radiance from multispectral, multiangular and polarimetric measurements over ocean

Feng Xu, Oleg Dubovik, Peng-Wang Zhai, David J. Diner, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Felix C. Seidel, Pavel Litvinov, Andrii Bovchaliuk, Michael J. Garay, Gerard van Harten, and Anthony B. Davis

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2877–2907, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2877-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2877-2016, 2016

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08 Jul 2016

Evaluation of NO⁺ reagent ion chemistry for online measurements of atmospheric volatile organic compounds

Abigail R. Koss, Carsten Warneke, Bin Yuan, Matthew M. Coggon, Patrick R. Veres, and Joost A. de Gouw

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2909–2925, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2909-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2909-2016, 2016

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12 Jul 2016

Effects of polar stratospheric clouds in the Nimbus 7 LIMS Version 6 data set

Ellis Remsberg and V. Lynn Harvey

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2927–2946, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2927-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2927-2016, 2016

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12 Jul 2016

An empirical method to correct for temperature-dependent variations in the overlap function of CHM15k ceilometers

Maxime Hervo, Yann Poltera, and Alexander Haefele

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2947–2959, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2947-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2947-2016, 2016

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14 Jul 2016

Sulfur dioxide (SO₂) vertical column density measurements by Pandora spectrometer over the Canadian oil sands

Vitali E. Fioletov, Chris A. McLinden, Alexander Cede, Jonathan Davies, Cristian Mihele, Stoyka Netcheva, Shao-Meng Li, and Jason O'Brien

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2961–2976, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2961-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2961-2016, 2016

14 Jul 2016

Operation of the Airmodus A11 nano Condensation Nucleus Counter at various inlet pressures and various operation temperatures, and design of a new inlet system

Juha Kangasluoma, Alessandro Franchin, Jonahtan Duplissy, Lauri Ahonen, Frans Korhonen, Michel Attoui, Jyri Mikkilä, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Joonas Vanhanen, Markku Kulmala, and Tuukka Petäjä

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2977–2988, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2977-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2977-2016, 2016

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14 Jul 2016

Benchmark campaign and case study episode in central Europe for development and assessment of advanced GNSS tropospheric models and products

Jan Douša, Galina Dick, Michal Kačmařík, Radmila Brožková, Florian Zus, Hugues Brenot, Anastasia Stoycheva, Gregor Möller, and Jan Kaplon

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2989–3008, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2989-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2989-2016, 2016

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14 Jul 2016

EARLINET Single Calculus Chain – technical – Part 2: Calculation of optical products

Ina Mattis, Giuseppe D'Amico, Holger Baars, Aldo Amodeo, Fabio Madonna, and Marco Iarlori

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3009–3029, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3009-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3009-2016, 2016

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14 Jul 2016

The role of cloud contamination, aerosol layer height and aerosol model in the assessment of the OMI near-UV retrievals over the ocean

Santiago Gassó and Omar Torres

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3031–3052, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3031-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3031-2016, 2016

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15 Jul 2016

Real time retrieval of volcanic cloud particles and SO₂ by satellite using an improved simplified approach

Sergio Pugnaghi, Lorenzo Guerrieri, Stefano Corradini, and Luca Merucci

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3053–3062, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3053-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3053-2016, 2016

18 Jul 2016

Instrumentation and measurement strategy for the NOAA SENEX aircraft campaign as part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study 2013

Carsten Warneke, Michael Trainer, Joost A. de Gouw, David D. Parrish, David W. Fahey, A. R. Ravishankara, Ann M. Middlebrook, Charles A. Brock, James M. Roberts, Steven S. Brown, Jonathan A. Neuman, Brian M. Lerner, Daniel Lack, Daniel Law, Gerhard Hübler, Iliana Pollack, Steven Sjostedt, Thomas B. Ryerson, Jessica B. Gilman, Jin Liao, John Holloway, Jeff Peischl, John B. Nowak, Kenneth C. Aikin, Kyung-Eun Min, Rebecca A. Washenfelder, Martin G. Graus, Mathew Richardson, Milos Z. Markovic, Nick L. Wagner, André Welti, Patrick R. Veres, Peter Edwards, Joshua P. Schwarz, Timothy Gordon, William P. Dube, Stuart A. McKeen, Jerome Brioude, Ravan Ahmadov, Aikaterini Bougiatioti, Jack J. Lin, Athanasios Nenes, Glenn M. Wolfe, Thomas F. Hanisco, Ben H. Lee, Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker, Joel A. Thornton, Frank N. Keutsch, Jennifer Kaiser, Jingqiu Mao, and Courtney D. Hatch

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3063–3093, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3063-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3063-2016, 2016

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19 Jul 2016

Direct assimilation of Chinese FY-3C Microwave Temperature Sounder-2 radiances in the global GRAPES system

Juan Li and Guiqing Liu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3095–3113, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3095-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3095-2016, 2016

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20 Jul 2016

Comparison of Vaisala radiosondes RS41 and RS92 at the ARM Southern Great Plains site

Michael P. Jensen, Donna J. Holdridge, Petteri Survo, Raisa Lehtinen, Shannon Baxter, Tami Toto, and Karen L. Johnson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3115–3129, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3115-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3115-2016, 2016

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20 Jul 2016

PHIPS–HALO: the airborne Particle Habit Imaging and Polar Scattering probe – Part 1: Design and operation

Ahmed Abdelmonem, Emma Järvinen, Denis Duft, Edwin Hirst, Steffen Vogt, Thomas Leisner, and Martin Schnaiter

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3131–3144, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3131-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3131-2016, 2016

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20 Jul 2016

4-D-VAR assimilation of disdrometer data and radar spectral reflectivities for raindrop size distribution and vertical wind retrievals

François Mercier, Aymeric Chazottes, Laurent Barthès, and Cécile Mallet

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3145–3163, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3145-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3145-2016, 2016

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21 Jul 2016

Characterization of anthropogenic methane plumes with the Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES): a retrieval method and error analysis

Le Kuai, John R. Worden, King-Fai Li, Glynn C. Hulley, Francesca M. Hopkins, Charles E. Miller, Simon J. Hook, Riley M. Duren, and Andrew D. Aubrey

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3165–3173, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3165-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3165-2016, 2016

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21 Jul 2016

Remote sensing of tropospheric turbulence using GPS radio occultation

Esayas Shume and Chi Ao

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3175–3182, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3175-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3175-2016, 2016

21 Jul 2016

Improved analysis of solar signals for differential reflectivity monitoring

Asko Huuskonen, Mikko Kurri, and Iwan Holleman

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3183–3192, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3183-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3183-2016, 2016

21 Jul 2016

Comparison of MODIS and VIIRS cloud properties with ARM ground-based observations over Finland

Moa K. Sporre, Ewan J. O'Connor, Nina Håkansson, Anke Thoss, Erik Swietlicki, and Tuukka Petäjä

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3193–3203, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3193-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3193-2016, 2016

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22 Jul 2016

Intercomparison of aerosol extinction profiles retrieved from MAX-DOAS measurements

U. Frieß, H. Klein Baltink, S. Beirle, K. Clémer, F. Hendrick, B. Henzing, H. Irie, G. de Leeuw, A. Li, M. M. Moerman, M. van Roozendael, R. Shaiganfar, T. Wagner, Y. Wang, P. Xie, S. Yilmaz, and P. Zieger

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3205–3222, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3205-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3205-2016, 2016

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22 Jul 2016

Vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties and the solar heating rate estimated by combining sky radiometer and lidar measurements

Rei Kudo, Tomoaki Nishizawa, and Toshinori Aoyagi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3223–3243, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3223-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3223-2016, 2016

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25 Jul 2016

Ion mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry (IMS–MS) for on- and offline analysis of atmospheric gas and aerosol species

Jordan E. Krechmer, Michael Groessl, Xuan Zhang, Heikki Junninen, Paola Massoli, Andrew T. Lambe, Joel R. Kimmel, Michael J. Cubison, Stephan Graf, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Sri H. Budisulistiorini, Haofei Zhang, Jason D. Surratt, Richard Knochenmuss, John T. Jayne, Douglas R. Worsnop, Jose-Luis Jimenez, and Manjula R. Canagaratna

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3245–3262, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3245-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3245-2016, 2016

25 Jul 2016

Applications and limitations of constrained high-resolution peak fitting on low resolving power mass spectra from the ToF-ACSM

Hilkka Timonen, Mike Cubison, Minna Aurela, David Brus, Heikki Lihavainen, Risto Hillamo, Manjula Canagaratna, Bettina Nekat, Rolf Weller, Douglas Worsnop, and Sanna Saarikoski

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3263–3281, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3263-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3263-2016, 2016

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26 Jul 2016

Chamber catalogues of optical and fluorescent signatures distinguish bioaerosol classes

Mark Hernandez, Anne E. Perring, Kevin McCabe, Greg Kok, Gary Granger, and Darrel Baumgardner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3283–3292, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3283-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3283-2016, 2016

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26 Jul 2016

A surface reflectance scheme for retrieving aerosol optical depth over urban surfaces in MODIS Dark Target retrieval algorithm

Pawan Gupta, Robert C. Levy, Shana Mattoo, Lorraine A. Remer, and Leigh A. Munchak

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3293–3308, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3293-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3293-2016, 2016

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26 Jul 2016

Simulation study for measurement of horizontal wind profiles in the polar stratosphere and mesosphere using ground-based observations of ozone and carbon monoxide lines in the 230–250 GHz region

David A. Newnham, George P. Ford, Tracy Moffat-Griffin, and Hugh C. Pumphrey

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3309–3323, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3309-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3309-2016, 2016

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27 Jul 2016

Comparisons of IASI-A and AATSR measurements of top-of-atmosphere radiance over an extended period

Manik Bali, Jonathan P. Mittaz, Eileen Maturi, and Mitchell D. Goldberg

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3325–3336, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3325-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3325-2016, 2016

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28 Jul 2016

Sampling strategies and post-processing methods for increasing the time resolution of organic aerosol measurements requiring long sample-collection times

Rob L. Modini and Satoshi Takahama

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3337–3354, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3337-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3337-2016, 2016

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28 Jul 2016

MIPAS IMK/IAA CFC-11 (CCl₃F) and CFC-12 (CCl₂F₂) measurements: accuracy, precision and long-term stability

E. Eckert, A. Laeng, S. Lossow, S. Kellmann, G. Stiller, T. von Clarmann, N. Glatthor, M. Höpfner, M. Kiefer, H. Oelhaf, J. Orphal, B. Funke, U. Grabowski, F. Haenel, A. Linden, G. Wetzel, W. Woiwode, P. F. Bernath, C. Boone, G. S. Dutton, J. W. Elkins, A. Engel, J. C. Gille, F. Kolonjari, T. Sugita, G. C. Toon, and K. A. Walker

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3355–3389, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3355-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3355-2016, 2016

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28 Jul 2016

Comparison of aerosol properties retrieved using GARRLiC, LIRIC, and Raman algorithms applied to multi-wavelength lidar and sun/sky-photometer data

Valentyn Bovchaliuk, Philippe Goloub, Thierry Podvin, Igor Veselovskii, Didier Tanre, Anatoli Chaikovsky, Oleg Dubovik, Augustin Mortier, Anton Lopatin, Mikhail Korenskiy, and Stephane Victori

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3391–3405, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3391-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3391-2016, 2016

28 Jul 2016

Tropical tropospheric ozone columns from nadir retrievals of GOME-1/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/Envisat, and GOME-2/MetOp-A (1996–2012)

Elpida Leventidou, Kai-Uwe Eichmann, Mark Weber, and John P. Burrows

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3407–3427, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3407-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3407-2016, 2016

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28 Jul 2016

Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: sparse methods for statistical selection of relevant absorption bands

Satoshi Takahama, Giulia Ruggeri, and Ann M. Dillner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3429–3454, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3429-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3429-2016, 2016

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29 Jul 2016

Characterisation and improvement of j(O¹D) filter radiometers

Birger Bohn, Dwayne E. Heard, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, Christian Plass-Dülmer, Rainer Schmitt, and Lisa K. Whalley

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3455–3466, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3455-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3455-2016, 2016

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01 Aug 2016

The Moon as a photometric calibration standard for microwave sensors

Martin Burgdorf, Stefan A. Buehler, Theresa Lang, Simon Michel, and Imke Hans

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3467–3475, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3467-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3467-2016, 2016

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01 Aug 2016

A new approach for retrieving the UV–vis optical properties of ambient aerosols

Nir Bluvshtein, J. Michel Flores, Lior Segev, and Yinon Rudich

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3477–3490, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3477-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3477-2016, 2016

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01 Aug 2016

Bias corrections of GOSAT SWIR XCO₂ and XCH₄ with TCCON data and their evaluation using aircraft measurement data

Makoto Inoue, Isamu Morino, Osamu Uchino, Takahiro Nakatsuru, Yukio Yoshida, Tatsuya Yokota, Debra Wunch, Paul O. Wennberg, Coleen M. Roehl, David W. T. Griffith, Voltaire A. Velazco, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Thorsten Warneke, Justus Notholt, John Robinson, Vanessa Sherlock, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, Markus Rettinger, Ralf Sussmann, Esko Kyrö, Rigel Kivi, Kei Shiomi, Shuji Kawakami, Martine De Mazière, Sabrina G. Arnold, Dietrich G. Feist, Erica A. Barrow, James Barney, Manvendra Dubey, Matthias Schneider, Laura T. Iraci, James R. Podolske, Patrick W. Hillyard, Toshinobu Machida, Yousuke Sawa, Kazuhiro Tsuboi, Hidekazu Matsueda, Colm Sweeney, Pieter P. Tans, Arlyn E. Andrews, Sebastien C. Biraud, Yukio Fukuyama, Jasna V. Pittman, Eric A. Kort, and Tomoaki Tanaka

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3491–3512, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3491-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3491-2016, 2016

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02 Aug 2016

GFIT2: an experimental algorithm for vertical profile retrieval from near-IR spectra

Brian J. Connor, Vanessa Sherlock, Geoff Toon, Debra Wunch, and Paul O. Wennberg

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3513–3525, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3513-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3513-2016, 2016

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03 Aug 2016

Assessment of errors and biases in retrievals of X_CO₂, X_CH₄, X_CO, and X_N₂O from a 0.5 cm^–1 resolution solar-viewing spectrometer

Jacob K. Hedelius, Camille Viatte, Debra Wunch, Coleen M. Roehl, Geoffrey C. Toon, Jia Chen, Taylor Jones, Steven C. Wofsy, Jonathan E. Franklin, Harrison Parker, Manvendra K. Dubey, and Paul O. Wennberg

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3527–3546, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3527-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3527-2016, 2016

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03 Aug 2016

Validation of Aura MLS retrievals of temperature, water vapour and ozone in the upper troposphere and lower–middle stratosphere over the Tibetan Plateau during boreal summer

Xiaolu Yan, Jonathon S. Wright, Xiangdong Zheng, Nathaniel J. Livesey, Holger Vömel, and Xiuji Zhou

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3547–3566, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3547-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3547-2016, 2016

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03 Aug 2016

Satellite observation of atmospheric methane: intercomparison between AIRS and GOSAT TANSO-FTS retrievals

Mingmin Zou, Xiaozhen Xiong, Naoko Saitoh, Juying Warner, Ying Zhang, Liangfu Chen, Fuzhong Weng, and Meng Fan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3567–3576, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3567-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3567-2016, 2016

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03 Aug 2016

How to reliably detect molecular clusters and nucleation mode particles with Neutral cluster and Air Ion Spectrometer (NAIS)

Hanna E. Manninen, Sander Mirme, Aadu Mirme, Tuukka Petäjä, and Markku Kulmala

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3577–3605, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3577-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3577-2016, 2016

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04 Aug 2016

How big is an OMI pixel?

Martin de Graaf, Holger Sihler, Lieuwe G. Tilstra, and Piet Stammes

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3607–3618, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3607-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3607-2016, 2016

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09 Aug 2016

A multi-wavelength classification method for polar stratospheric cloud types using infrared limb spectra

Reinhold Spang, Lars Hoffmann, Michael Höpfner, Sabine Griessbach, Rolf Müller, Michael C. Pitts, Andrew M. W. Orr, and Martin Riese

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3619–3639, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3619-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3619-2016, 2016

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09 Aug 2016

Toward autonomous surface-based infrared remote sensing of polar clouds: cloud-height retrievals

Penny M. Rowe, Christopher J. Cox, and Von P. Walden

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3641–3659, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3641-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3641-2016, 2016

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09 Aug 2016

Potential of needle trap microextraction–portable gas chromatography–mass spectrometry for measurement of atmospheric volatile compounds

Luís Miguel Feijó Barreira, Yu Xue, Geoffroy Duporté, Jevgeni Parshintsev, Kari Hartonen, Matti Jussila, Markku Kulmala, and Marja-Liisa Riekkola

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3661–3671, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3661-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3661-2016, 2016

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09 Aug 2016

LOAC: a small aerosol optical counter/sizer for ground-based and balloon measurements of the size distribution and nature of atmospheric particles – Part 2: First results from balloon and unmanned aerial vehicle flights

Jean-Baptiste Renard, François Dulac, Gwenaël Berthet, Thibaut Lurton, Damien Vignelles, Fabrice Jégou, Thierry Tonnelier, Matthieu Jeannot, Benoit Couté, Rony Akiki, Nicolas Verdier, Marc Mallet, François Gensdarmes, Patrick Charpentier, Samuel Mesmin, Vincent Duverger, Jean-Charles Dupont, Thierry Elias, Vincent Crenn, Jean Sciare, Paul Zieger, Matthew Salter, Tjarda Roberts, Jérôme Giacomoni, Matthieu Gobbi, Eric Hamonou, Haraldur Olafsson, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Claude Camy-Peyret, Christophe Mazel, Thierry Décamps, Martin Piringer, Jérémy Surcin, and Daniel Daugeron

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3673–3686, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3673-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3673-2016, 2016

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10 Aug 2016

A new set-up for simultaneous high-precision measurements of CO₂, δ¹³C-CO₂ and δ¹⁸O-CO₂ on small ice core samples

Theo Manuel Jenk, Mauro Rubino, David Etheridge, Viorela Gabriela Ciobanu, and Thomas Blunier

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3687–3706, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3687-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3687-2016, 2016

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11 Aug 2016

Mesospheric temperature soundings with the new, daylight-capable IAP RMR lidar

Michael Gerding, Maren Kopp, Josef Höffner, Kathrin Baumgarten, and Franz-Josef Lübken

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3707–3715, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3707-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3707-2016, 2016

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12 Aug 2016

Development and evaluation of a suite of isotope reference gases for methane in air

Peter Sperlich, Nelly A. M. Uitslag, Jürgen M. Richter, Michael Rothe, Heike Geilmann, Carina van der Veen, Thomas Röckmann, Thomas Blunier, and Willi A. Brand

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3717–3737, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3717-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3717-2016, 2016

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12 Aug 2016

Relationship between temperature and apparent shape of pristine ice crystals derived from polarimetric cloud radar observations during the ACCEPT campaign

Alexander Myagkov, Patric Seifert, Ulla Wandinger, Johannes Bühl, and Ronny Engelmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3739–3754, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3739-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3739-2016, 2016

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16 Aug 2016

An update on the uncertainties of water vapor measurements using cryogenic frost point hygrometers

Holger Vömel, Tatjana Naebert, Ruud Dirksen, and Michael Sommer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3755–3768, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3755-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3755-2016, 2016

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17 Aug 2016

Recommendations for processing atmospheric attenuated backscatter profiles from Vaisala CL31 ceilometers

Simone Kotthaus, Ewan O'Connor, Christoph Münkel, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Martial Haeffelin, Andrew M. Gabey, and C. Sue B. Grimmond

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3769–3791, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3769-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3769-2016, 2016

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18 Aug 2016

On instrumental errors and related correction strategies of ozonesondes: possible effect on calculated ozone trends for the nearby sites Uccle and De Bilt

Roeland Van Malderen, Marc A. F. Allaart, Hugo De Backer, Herman G. J. Smit, and Dirk De Muer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3793–3816, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3793-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3793-2016, 2016

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18 Aug 2016

Development and characterization of an ice-selecting pumped counterflow virtual impactor (IS-PCVI) to study ice crystal residuals

Naruki Hiranuma, Ottmar Möhler, Gourihar Kulkarni, Martin Schnaiter, Steffen Vogt, Paul Vochezer, Emma Järvinen, Robert Wagner, David M. Bell, Jacqueline Wilson, Alla Zelenyuk, and Daniel J. Cziczo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3817–3836, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3817-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3817-2016, 2016

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18 Aug 2016

Close-range radar rainfall estimation and error analysis

C. Z. van de Beek, H. Leijnse, P. Hazenberg, and R. Uijlenhoet

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3837–3850, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3837-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3837-2016, 2016

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19 Aug 2016

A new technique for the direct detection of HO₂ radicals using bromide chemical ionization mass spectrometry (Br-CIMS): initial characterization

Javier Sanchez, David J. Tanner, Dexian Chen, L. Gregory Huey, and Nga L. Ng

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3851–3861, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3851-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3851-2016, 2016

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22 Aug 2016

Dual-polarization radar rainfall estimation in Korea according to raindrop shapes obtained by using a 2-D video disdrometer

Hae-Lim Kim, Mi-Kyung Suk, Hye-Sook Park, Gyu-Won Lee, and Jeong-Seok Ko

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3863–3878, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3863-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3863-2016, 2016

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22 Aug 2016

Intercomparison of two cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyzers for atmospheric ¹³CO₂  ∕ ¹²CO₂ measurement

Jiaping Pang, Xuefa Wen, Xiaomin Sun, and Kuan Huang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3879–3891, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3879-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3879-2016, 2016

23 Aug 2016

The CU 2-D-MAX-DOAS instrument – Part 2: Raman scattering probability measurements and retrieval of aerosol optical properties

Ivan Ortega, Sean Coburn, Larry K. Berg, Kathy Lantz, Joseph Michalsky, Richard A. Ferrare, Johnathan W. Hair, Chris A. Hostetler, and Rainer Volkamer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3893–3910, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3893-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3893-2016, 2016

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23 Aug 2016

Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques

Franz-Josef Lübken, Gerd Baumgarten, Jens Hildebrand, and Francis J. Schmidlin

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3911–3919, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016, 2016

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23 Aug 2016

HDO and H₂O total column retrievals from TROPOMI shortwave infrared measurements

Remco A. Scheepmaker, Joost aan de Brugh, Haili Hu, Tobias Borsdorff, Christian Frankenberg, Camille Risi, Otto Hasekamp, Ilse Aben, and Jochen Landgraf

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3921–3937, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3921-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3921-2016, 2016

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23 Aug 2016

New methods for the retrieval of chlorophyll red fluorescence from hyperspectral satellite instruments: simulations and application to GOME-2 and SCIAMACHY

Joanna Joiner, Yasuko Yoshida, Luis Guanter, and Elizabeth M. Middleton

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3939–3967, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3939-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3939-2016, 2016

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23 Aug 2016

Clustering, methodology, and mechanistic insights into acetate chemical ionization using high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Patrick Brophy and Delphine K. Farmer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3969–3986, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3969-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3969-2016, 2016

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23 Aug 2016

A wavelength-dispersive instrument for characterizing fluorescence and scattering spectra of individual aerosol particles on a substrate

Donald R. Huffman, Benjamin E. Swanson, and J. Alex Huffman

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3987–3998, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3987-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3987-2016, 2016

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23 Aug 2016

Validation and analysis of MOPITT CO observations of the Amazon Basin

M. N. Deeter, S. Martínez-Alonso, L. V. Gatti, M. Gloor, J. B. Miller, L. G. Domingues, and C. S. C. Correia

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3999–4012, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3999-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3999-2016, 2016

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24 Aug 2016

Ground-based lidar and microwave radiometry synergy for high vertical resolution absolute humidity profiling

María Barrera-Verdejo, Susanne Crewell, Ulrich Löhnert, Emiliano Orlandi, and Paolo Di Girolamo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4013–4028, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4013-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4013-2016, 2016

25 Aug 2016

Proposed standardized definitions for vertical resolution and uncertainty in the NDACC lidar ozone and temperature algorithms – Part 1: Vertical resolution

Thierry Leblanc, Robert J. Sica, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Alexander Haefele, Thomas Trickl, Guillaume Payen, and Frank Gabarrot

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4029–4049, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4029-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4029-2016, 2016

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25 Aug 2016

Proposed standardized definitions for vertical resolution and uncertainty in the NDACC lidar ozone and temperature algorithms – Part 2: Ozone DIAL uncertainty budget

Thierry Leblanc, Robert J. Sica, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Alexander Haefele, Thomas Trickl, Guillaume Payen, and Gianluigi Liberti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4051–4078, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4051-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4051-2016, 2016

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25 Aug 2016

Proposed standardized definitions for vertical resolution and uncertainty in the NDACC lidar ozone and temperature algorithms – Part 3: Temperature uncertainty budget

Thierry Leblanc, Robert J. Sica, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Alexander Haefele, Guillaume Payen, and Gianluigi Liberti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4079–4101, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4079-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4079-2016, 2016

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26 Aug 2016

Limb–nadir matching using non-coincident NO₂ observations: proof of concept and the OMI-minus-OSIRIS prototype product

Cristen Adams, Elise N. Normand, Chris A. McLinden, Adam E. Bourassa, Nicholas D. Lloyd, Douglas A. Degenstein, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Maria Belmonte Rivas, K. Folkert Boersma, and Henk Eskes

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4103–4122, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4103-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4103-2016, 2016

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29 Aug 2016

Errors in radial velocity variance from Doppler wind lidar

H. Wang, R. J. Barthelmie, P. Doubrawa, and S. C. Pryor

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4123–4139, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4123-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4123-2016, 2016

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30 Aug 2016

Estimates of Mode-S EHS aircraft-derived wind observation errors using triple collocation

Siebren de Haan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4141–4150, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4141-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4141-2016, 2016

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30 Aug 2016

Coupling sky images with radiative transfer models: a new method to estimate cloud optical depth

Felipe A. Mejia, Ben Kurtz, Keenan Murray, Laura M. Hinkelman, Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xie, and Jan Kleissl

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4151–4165, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4151-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4151-2016, 2016

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31 Aug 2016

Application of oxygen A-band equivalent width to disambiguate downwelling radiances for cloud optical depth measurement

Edward R. Niple, Herman E. Scott, John A. Conant, Stephen H. Jones, Frank J. Iannarilli, and Wellesley E. Pereira

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4167–4179, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4167-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4167-2016, 2016

31 Aug 2016

About the effects of polarising optics on lidar signals and the Δ90 calibration

Volker Freudenthaler

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4181–4255, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4181-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4181-2016, 2016

01 Sep 2016

A miniature Marine Aerosol Reference Tank (miniMART) as a compact breaking wave analogue

M. Dale Stokes, Grant Deane, Douglas B. Collins, Christopher Cappa, Timothy Bertram, Abigail Dommer, Steven Schill, Sara Forestieri, and Mathew Survilo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4257–4267, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4257-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4257-2016, 2016

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01 Sep 2016

1064 nm rotational Raman lidar for particle extinction and lidar-ratio profiling: cirrus case study

Moritz Haarig, Ronny Engelmann, Albert Ansmann, Igor Veselovskii, David N. Whiteman, and Dietrich Althausen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4269–4278, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4269-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4269-2016, 2016

05 Sep 2016

Sky camera geometric calibration using solar observations

Bryan Urquhart, Ben Kurtz, and Jan Kleissl

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4279–4294, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4279-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4279-2016, 2016

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05 Sep 2016

Advancements, measurement uncertainties, and recent comparisons of the NOAA frost point hygrometer

Emrys G. Hall, Allen F. Jordan, Dale F. Hurst, Samuel J. Oltmans, Holger Vömel, Benjamin Kühnreich, and Volker Ebert

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4295–4310, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4295-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4295-2016, 2016

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06 Sep 2016

Lake spray aerosol generation: a method for producing representative particles from freshwater wave breaking

Nathaniel W. May, Jessica L. Axson, Alexa Watson, Kerri A. Pratt, and Andrew P. Ault

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4311–4325, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4311-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4311-2016, 2016

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06 Sep 2016

Seven years of IASI ozone retrievals from FORLI: validation with independent total column and vertical profile measurements

Anne Boynard, Daniel Hurtmans, Mariliza E. Koukouli, Florence Goutail, Jérôme Bureau, Sarah Safieddine, Christophe Lerot, Juliette Hadji-Lazaro, Catherine Wespes, Jean-Pierre Pommereau, Andrea Pazmino, Irene Zyrichidou, Dimitris Balis, Alain Barbe, Semen N. Mikhailenko, Diego Loyola, Pieter Valks, Michel Van Roozendael, Pierre-François Coheur, and Cathy Clerbaux

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4327–4353, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4327-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4327-2016, 2016

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06 Sep 2016

Evaluation of water vapour assimilation in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere by a chemical transport model

Swagata Payra, Philippe Ricaud, Rachid Abida, Laaziz El Amraoui, Jean-Luc Attié, Emmanuel Rivière, Fabien Carminati, and Thomas von Clarmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4355–4373, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4355-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4355-2016, 2016

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06 Sep 2016

Turbulence fluxes and variances measured with a sonic anemometer mounted on a tethered balloon

Guylaine Canut, Fleur Couvreux, Marie Lothon, Dominique Legain, Bruno Piguet, Astrid Lampert, William Maurel, and Eric Moulin

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4375–4386, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4375-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4375-2016, 2016

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07 Sep 2016

Ceilometer evaluation of the eastern Mediterranean summer boundary layer height – first study of two Israeli sites

Leenes Uzan, Smadar Egert, and Pinhas Alpert

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4387–4398, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4387-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4387-2016, 2016

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07 Sep 2016

Infrared limb emission measurements of aerosol in the troposphere and stratosphere

Sabine Griessbach, Lars Hoffmann, Reinhold Spang, Marc von Hobe, Rolf Müller, and Martin Riese

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4399–4423, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4399-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4399-2016, 2016

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08 Sep 2016

Hydrometeor classification through statistical clustering of polarimetric radar measurements: a semi-supervised approach

Nikola Besic, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Jacopo Grazioli, Marco Gabella, Urs Germann, and Alexis Berne

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4425–4445, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4425-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4425-2016, 2016

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08 Sep 2016

Recent divergences in stratospheric water vapor measurements by frost point hygrometers and the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder

Dale F. Hurst, William G. Read, Holger Vömel, Henry B. Selkirk, Karen H. Rosenlof, Sean M. Davis, Emrys G. Hall, Allen F. Jordan, and Samuel J. Oltmans

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4447–4457, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4447-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4447-2016, 2016

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08 Sep 2016

Uncertainty budgets of major ozone absorption cross sections used in UV remote sensing applications

Mark Weber, Victor Gorshelev, and Anna Serdyuchenko

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4459–4470, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4459-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4459-2016, 2016

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09 Sep 2016

Intercomparison of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide columns retrieved from ground-based DOAS and FTIR and satellite DOAS instruments over the subtropical Izana station

Cristina Robles-Gonzalez, Mónica Navarro-Comas, Olga Puentedura, Matthias Schneider, Frank Hase, Omaira Garcia, Thomas Blumenstock, and Manuel Gil-Ojeda

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4471–4485, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4471-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4471-2016, 2016

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12 Sep 2016

High-spatial-resolution mapping of precipitable water vapour using SAR interferograms, GPS observations and ERA-Interim reanalysis

Wei Tang, Mingsheng Liao, Lu Zhang, Wei Li, and Weimin Yu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4487–4501, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4487-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4487-2016, 2016

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12 Sep 2016

Ozone profiles above Kiruna from two ground-based radiometers

Niall J. Ryan, Kaley A. Walker, Uwe Raffalski, Rigel Kivi, Jochen Gross, and Gloria L. Manney

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4503–4519, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4503-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4503-2016, 2016

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13 Sep 2016

Improvement of OMI ozone profile retrievals by simultaneously fitting polar mesospheric clouds

Juseon Bak, Xiong Liu, Jae H. Kim, Matthew T. Deland, and Kelly Chance

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4521–4531, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4521-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4521-2016, 2016

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14 Sep 2016

Measurement of isoprene nitrates by GCMS

Graham P. Mills, Glyn D. Hiatt-Gipson, Sean P. Bew, and Claire E. Reeves

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4533–4545, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4533-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4533-2016, 2016

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14 Sep 2016

Inter-comparison of NIOSH and IMPROVE protocols for OC and EC determination: implications for inter-protocol data conversion

Cheng Wu, X. H. Hilda Huang, Wai Man Ng, Stephen M. Griffith, and Jian Zhen Yu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4547–4560, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4547-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4547-2016, 2016

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16 Sep 2016

Investigation of a potential HCHO measurement artifact from ISOPOOH

Jason M. St. Clair, Jean C. Rivera-Rios, John D. Crounse, Eric Praske, Michelle J. Kim, Glenn M. Wolfe, Frank N. Keutsch, Paul O. Wennberg, and Thomas F. Hanisco

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4561–4568, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4561-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4561-2016, 2016

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16 Sep 2016

Comparison of the aerosol optical properties and size distribution retrieved by sun photometer with in situ measurements at midlatitude

Aurélien Chauvigné, Karine Sellegri, Maxime Hervo, Nadège Montoux, Patrick Freville, and Philippe Goloub

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4569–4585, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4569-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4569-2016, 2016

20 Sep 2016

Validation of brightness and physical temperature from two scanning microwave radiometers in the 60 GHz O₂ band using radiosonde measurements

Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Niklaus Kämpfer, and Alexander Haefele

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4587–4600, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4587-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4587-2016, 2016

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20 Sep 2016

A laser-induced fluorescence instrument for aircraft measurements of sulfur dioxide in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

Andrew W. Rollins, Troy D. Thornberry, Steven J. Ciciora, Richard J. McLaughlin, Laurel A. Watts, Thomas F. Hanisco, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Thaopaul V. Bui, David W. Fahey, and Ru-Shan Gao

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4601–4613, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4601-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4601-2016, 2016

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20 Sep 2016

Ground-based imaging remote sensing of ice clouds: uncertainties caused by sensor, method and atmosphere

Tobias Zinner, Petra Hausmann, Florian Ewald, Luca Bugliaro, Claudia Emde, and Bernhard Mayer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4615–4632, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4615-2016, 2016

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20 Sep 2016

Potential of a geostationary geoCARB mission to estimate surface emissions of CO₂, CH₄ and CO in a polluted urban environment: case study Shanghai

Denis M. O'Brien, Igor N. Polonsky, Steven R. Utembe, and Peter J. Rayner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4633–4654, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4633-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4633-2016, 2016

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20 Sep 2016

Phosgene in the UTLS: seasonal and latitudinal variations from MIPAS observations

Massimo Valeri, Massimo Carlotti, Jean-Marie Flaud, Piera Raspollini, Marco Ridolfi, and Bianca Maria Dinelli

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4655–4663, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4655-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4655-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

Optimal use of buffer volumes for the measurement of atmospheric gas concentration in multi-point systems

Alessandro Cescatti, Barbara Marcolla, Ignacio Goded, and Carsten Gruening

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4665–4672, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4665-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4665-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

The Zugspitze radiative closure experiment for quantifying water vapor absorption over the terrestrial and solar infrared – Part 2: Accurate calibration of high spectral-resolution infrared measurements of surface solar radiation

Andreas Reichert, Markus Rettinger, and Ralf Sussmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4673–4686, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4673-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4673-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

AerGOM, an improved algorithm for stratospheric aerosol extinction retrieval from GOMOS observations – Part 1: Algorithm description

Filip Vanhellemont, Nina Mateshvili, Laurent Blanot, Charles Étienne Robert, Christine Bingen, Viktoria Sofieva, Francis Dalaudier, Cédric Tétard, Didier Fussen, Emmanuel Dekemper, Erkki Kyrölä, Marko Laine, Johanna Tamminen, and Claus Zehner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4687–4700, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4687-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4687-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

AerGOM, an improved algorithm for stratospheric aerosol extinction retrieval from GOMOS observations – Part 2: Intercomparisons

Charles Étienne Robert, Christine Bingen, Filip Vanhellemont, Nina Mateshvili, Emmanuel Dekemper, Cédric Tétard, Didier Fussen, Adam Bourassa, and Claus Zehner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4701–4718, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4701-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4701-2016, 2016

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22 Sep 2016

Automatic processing of atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄ mole fractions at the ICOS Atmosphere Thematic Centre

Lynn Hazan, Jérôme Tarniewicz, Michel Ramonet, Olivier Laurent, and Amara Abbaris

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4719–4736, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4719-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4719-2016, 2016

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26 Sep 2016

Assessment of recent advances in measurement techniques for atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane observations

Christoph Zellweger, Lukas Emmenegger, Mohd Firdaus, Juha Hatakka, Martin Heimann, Elena Kozlova, T. Gerard Spain, Martin Steinbacher, Marcel V. van der Schoot, and Brigitte Buchmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4737–4757, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4737-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4737-2016, 2016

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26 Sep 2016

A semiempirical error estimation technique for PWV derived from atmospheric radiosonde data

Julio A. Castro-Almazán, Gabriel Pérez-Jordán, and Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4759–4781, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4759-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4759-2016, 2016

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27 Sep 2016

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First characterization and validation of FORLI-HNO₃ vertical profiles retrieved from IASI/Metop

Gaétane Ronsmans, Bavo Langerock, Catherine Wespes, James W. Hannigan, Frank Hase, Tobias Kerzenmacher, Emmanuel Mahieu, Matthias Schneider, Dan Smale, Daniel Hurtmans, Martine De Mazière, Cathy Clerbaux, and Pierre-François Coheur

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4783–4801, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4783-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4783-2016, 2016

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28 Sep 2016

Absolute calibration of the colour index and O₄ absorption derived from Multi AXis (MAX-)DOAS measurements and their application to a standardised cloud classification algorithm

Thomas Wagner, Steffen Beirle, Julia Remmers, Reza Shaiganfar, and Yang Wang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4803–4823, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4803-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4803-2016, 2016

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28 Sep 2016

Ensemble mean density and its connection to other microphysical properties of falling snow as observed in Southern Finland

Jussi Tiira, Dmitri N. Moisseev, Annakaisa von Lerber, Davide Ori, Ali Tokay, Larry F. Bliven, and Walter Petersen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4825–4841, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4825-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4825-2016, 2016

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28 Sep 2016

Evaluation of column-averaged methane in models and TCCON with a focus on the stratosphere

Andreas Ostler, Ralf Sussmann, Prabir K. Patra, Sander Houweling, Marko De Bruine, Gabriele P. Stiller, Florian J. Haenel, Johannes Plieninger, Philippe Bousquet, Yi Yin, Marielle Saunois, Kaley A. Walker, Nicholas M. Deutscher, David W. T. Griffith, Thomas Blumenstock, Frank Hase, Thorsten Warneke, Zhiting Wang, Rigel Kivi, and John Robinson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4843–4859, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4843-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4843-2016, 2016

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29 Sep 2016

Comparison of GPS tropospheric delays derived from two consecutive EPN reprocessing campaigns from the point of view of climate monitoring

Zofia Baldysz, Grzegorz Nykiel, Andrzej Araszkiewicz, Mariusz Figurski, and Karolina Szafranek

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4861–4877, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4861-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4861-2016, 2016

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04 Oct 2016

Estimation of background gas concentration from differential absorption lidar measurements

Peter Harris, Nadia Smith, Valerie Livina, Tom Gardiner, Rod Robinson, and Fabrizio Innocenti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4879–4890, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4879-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4879-2016, 2016

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06 Oct 2016

An automated online instrument to quantify aerosol-bound reactive oxygen species (ROS) for ambient measurement and health-relevant aerosol studies

Francis P. H. Wragg, Stephen J. Fuller, Ray Freshwater, David C. Green, Frank J. Kelly, and Markus Kalberer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4891–4900, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4891-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4891-2016, 2016

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06 Oct 2016

Proof of concept for turbulence measurements with the RPAS SUMO during the BLLAST campaign

Line Båserud, Joachim Reuder, Marius O. Jonassen, Stephan T. Kral, Mostafa B. Paskyabi, and Marie Lothon

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4901–4913, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4901-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4901-2016, 2016

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06 Oct 2016

Quantifying the uncertainty of eddy covariance fluxes due to the use of different software packages and combinations of processing steps in two contrasting ecosystems

Ivan Mammarella, Olli Peltola, Annika Nordbo, Leena Järvi, and Üllar Rannik

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4915–4933, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4915-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4915-2016, 2016

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07 Oct 2016

Assessment of lidar depolarization uncertainty by means of a polarimetric lidar simulator

Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Livio Belegante, Volker Freudenthaler, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Doina Nicolae, María José Granados-Muñoz, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Aldo Amodeo, Giusseppe D'Amico, Ronny Engelmann, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Panos Kokkalis, Rodanthy Mamouri, Alex Papayannis, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Francisco José Olmo, Ulla Wandinger, Francesco Amato, and Martial Haeffelin

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4935–4953, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4935-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4935-2016, 2016

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07 Oct 2016

Carbon monoxide total column retrievals from TROPOMI shortwave infrared measurements

Jochen Landgraf, Joost aan de Brugh, Remco Scheepmaker, Tobias Borsdorff, Haili Hu, Sander Houweling, Andre Butz, Ilse Aben, and Otto Hasekamp

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4955–4975, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4955-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4955-2016, 2016

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11 Oct 2016

Cloud information content analysis of multi-angular measurements in the oxygen A-band: application to 3MI and MSPI

Guillaume Merlin, Jérôme Riedi, Laurent C. Labonnote, Céline Cornet, Anthony B. Davis, Phillipe Dubuisson, Marine Desmons, Nicolas Ferlay, and Frédéric Parol

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4977–4995, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4977-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4977-2016, 2016

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11 Oct 2016

Radiocarbon analysis of stratospheric CO₂ retrieved from AirCore sampling

Dipayan Paul, Huilin Chen, Henk A. Been, Rigel Kivi, and Harro A. J. Meijer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4997–5006, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4997-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4997-2016, 2016

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12 Oct 2016

Microphysical particle properties derived from inversion algorithms developed in the framework of EARLINET

Detlef Müller, Christine Böckmann, Alexei Kolgotin, Lars Schneidenbach, Eduard Chemyakin, Julia Rosemann, Pavel Znak, and Anton Romanov

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5007–5035, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5007-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5007-2016, 2016

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13 Oct 2016

Trends of tropical tropospheric ozone from 20 years of European satellite measurements and perspectives for the Sentinel-5 Precursor

Klaus-Peter Heue, Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, Andy Delcloo, Christophe Lerot, Diego Loyola, Pieter Valks, and Michel van Roozendael

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5037–5051, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5037-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5037-2016, 2016

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14 Oct 2016

Validating MODIS above-cloud aerosol optical depth retrieved from “color ratio” algorithm using direct measurements made by NASA's airborne AATS and 4STAR sensors

Hiren Jethva, Omar Torres, Lorraine Remer, Jens Redemann, John Livingston, Stephen Dunagan, Yohei Shinozuka, Meloe Kacenelenbogen, Michal Segal Rosenheimer, and Rob Spurr

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5053–5062, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5053-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5053-2016, 2016

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17 Oct 2016

Airborne laser scan data: a valuable tool with which to infer weather radar partial beam blockage in urban environments

Roberto Cremonini, Dmitri Moisseev, and Venkatachalam Chandrasekar

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5063–5075, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5063-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5063-2016, 2016

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18 Oct 2016

Application of the full spectrum inversion algorithm to simulated airborne GPS radio occultation signals

Loknath Adhikari, Feiqin Xie, and Jennifer S. Haase

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5077–5087, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5077-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5077-2016, 2016

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18 Oct 2016

MAX-DOAS retrieval of aerosol extinction properties in Madrid, Spain

Shanshan Wang, Carlos A. Cuevas, Udo Frieß, and Alfonso Saiz-Lopez

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5089–5101, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5089-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5089-2016, 2016

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18 Oct 2016

A five-channel cavity ring-down spectrometer for the detection of NO₂, NO₃, N₂O₅, total peroxy nitrates and total alkyl nitrates

Nicolas Sobanski, Jan Schuladen, Gerhard Schuster, Jos Lelieveld, and John N. Crowley

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5103–5118, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5103-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5103-2016, 2016

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19 Oct 2016

A polarimetric scattering database for non-spherical ice particles at microwave wavelengths

Yinghui Lu, Zhiyuan Jiang, Kultegin Aydin, Johannes Verlinde, Eugene E. Clothiaux, and Giovanni Botta

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5119–5134, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5119-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5119-2016, 2016

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20 Oct 2016

Thermodynamic correction of particle concentrations measured by underwing probes on fast-flying aircraft

Ralf Weigel, Peter Spichtinger, Christoph Mahnke, Marcus Klingebiel, Armin Afchine, Andreas Petzold, Martina Krämer, Anja Costa, Sergej Molleker, Philipp Reutter, Miklós Szakáll, Max Port, Lucas Grulich, Tina Jurkat, Andreas Minikin, and Stephan Borrmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5135–5162, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5135-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5135-2016, 2016

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21 Oct 2016

Random uncertainties of flux measurements by the eddy covariance technique

Üllar Rannik, Olli Peltola, and Ivan Mammarella

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5163–5181, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5163-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5163-2016, 2016

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24 Oct 2016

A broad supersaturation scanning (BS2) approach for rapid measurement of aerosol particle hygroscopicity and cloud condensation nuclei activity

Hang Su, Yafang Cheng, Nan Ma, Zhibin Wang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Mira L. Pöhlker, Björn Nillius, Alfred Wiedensohler, and Ulrich Pöschl

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5183–5192, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5183-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5183-2016, 2016

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24 Oct 2016

Inverse modelling of NO_x emissions over eastern China: uncertainties due to chemical non-linearity

Dasa Gu, Yuhang Wang, Ran Yin, Yuzhong Zhang, and Charles Smeltzer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5193–5201, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5193-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5193-2016, 2016

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24 Oct 2016

Comparison of OMI NO₂ observations and their seasonal and weekly cycles with ground-based measurements in Helsinki

Iolanda Ialongo, Jay Herman, Nick Krotkov, Lok Lamsal, K. Folkert Boersma, Jari Hovila, and Johanna Tamminen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5203–5212, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5203-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5203-2016, 2016

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26 Oct 2016

A comparison of very short lived halocarbon (VSLS) and DMS aircraft measurements in the tropical west Pacific from CAST, ATTREX and CONTRAST

Stephen J. Andrews, Lucy J. Carpenter, Eric C. Apel, Elliot Atlas, Valeria Donets, James R. Hopkins, Rebecca S. Hornbrook, Alastair C. Lewis, Richard T. Lidster, Richard Lueb, Jamie Minaeian, Maria Navarro, Shalini Punjabi, Daniel Riemer, and Sue Schauffler

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5213–5225, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5213-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5213-2016, 2016

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27 Oct 2016

Quantification of uncertainties in OCO-2 measurements of XCO₂: simulations and linear error analysis

Brian Connor, Hartmut Bösch, James McDuffie, Tommy Taylor, Dejian Fu, Christian Frankenberg, Chris O'Dell, Vivienne H. Payne, Michael Gunson, Randy Pollock, Jonathan Hobbs, Fabiano Oyafuso, and Yibo Jiang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5227–5238, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5227-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5227-2016, 2016

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27 Oct 2016

Lidar observations of atmospheric internal waves in the boundary layer of the atmosphere on the coast of Lake Baikal

Viktor A. Banakh and Igor N. Smalikho

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5239–5248, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5239-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5239-2016, 2016

28 Oct 2016

Assessing the performance of troposphere tomographic modeling using multi-source water vapor data during Hong Kong's rainy season from May to October 2013

Biyan Chen and Zhizhao Liu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5249–5263, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5249-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5249-2016, 2016

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31 Oct 2016

A versatile, refrigerant- and cryogen-free cryofocusing–thermodesorption unit for preconcentration of traces gases in air

Florian Obersteiner, Harald Bönisch, Timo Keber, Simon O'Doherty, and Andreas Engel

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5265–5279, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5265-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5265-2016, 2016

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01 Nov 2016

Community Air Sensor Network (CAIRSENSE) project: evaluation of low-cost sensor performance in a suburban environment in the southeastern United States

Wan Jiao, Gayle Hagler, Ronald Williams, Robert Sharpe, Ryan Brown, Daniel Garver, Robert Judge, Motria Caudill, Joshua Rickard, Michael Davis, Lewis Weinstock, Susan Zimmer-Dauphinee, and Ken Buckley

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5281–5292, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5281-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5281-2016, 2016

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01 Nov 2016

Continuous and high-precision atmospheric concentration measurements of COS, CO₂, CO and H₂O using a quantum cascade laser spectrometer (QCLS)

Linda M. J. Kooijmans, Nelly A. M. Uitslag, Mark S. Zahniser, David D. Nelson, Stephen A. Montzka, and Huilin Chen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5293–5314, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5293-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5293-2016, 2016

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07 Nov 2016

Sensitive detection of n-alkanes using a mixed ionization mode proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometer

Omar Amador-Muñoz, Pawel K. Misztal, Robin Weber, David R. Worton, Haofei Zhang, Greg Drozd, and Allen H. Goldstein

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5315–5329, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5315-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5315-2016, 2016

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07 Nov 2016

A novel single-cavity three-wavelength photoacoustic spectrometer for atmospheric aerosol research

Claudia Linke, Inas Ibrahim, Nina Schleicher, Regina Hitzenberger, Meinrat O. Andreae, Thomas Leisner, and Martin Schnaiter

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5331–5346, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5331-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5331-2016, 2016

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07 Nov 2016

Radiation fog formation alerts using attenuated backscatter power from automatic lidars and ceilometers

Martial Haeffelin, Quentin Laffineur, Juan-Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Juan-Andrés Casquero-Vera, Jean-Charles Dupont, and Hugo De Backer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5347–5365, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5347-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5347-2016, 2016

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08 Nov 2016

An integrated approach to monitoring the calibration stability of operational dual-polarization radars

Mattia Vaccarono, Renzo Bechini, Chandra V. Chandrasekar, Roberto Cremonini, and Claudio Cassardo

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5367–5383, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5367-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5367-2016, 2016

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08 Nov 2016

Review of the state of the art and future prospects of the ground-based GNSS meteorology in Europe

Guergana Guerova, Jonathan Jones, Jan Douša, Galina Dick, Siebren de Haan, Eric Pottiaux, Olivier Bock, Rosa Pacione, Gunnar Elgered, Henrik Vedel, and Michael Bender

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5385–5406, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5385-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5385-2016, 2016

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09 Nov 2016

Retrieval of ash properties from IASI measurements

Lucy J. Ventress, Gregory McGarragh, Elisa Carboni, Andrew J. Smith, and Roy G. Grainger

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5407–5422, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5407-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5407-2016, 2016

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09 Nov 2016

The operational methane retrieval algorithm for TROPOMI

Haili Hu, Otto Hasekamp, André Butz, André Galli, Jochen Landgraf, Joost Aan de Brugh, Tobias Borsdorff, Remco Scheepmaker, and Ilse Aben

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5423–5440, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5423-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5423-2016, 2016

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14 Nov 2016

The new Passive microwave Neural network Precipitation Retrieval (PNPR) algorithm for the cross-track scanning ATMS radiometer: description and verification study over Europe and Africa using GPM and TRMM spaceborne radars

Paolo Sanò, Giulia Panegrossi, Daniele Casella, Anna C. Marra, Francesco Di Paola, and Stefano Dietrich

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5441–5460, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5441-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5441-2016, 2016

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14 Nov 2016

Simulation of submillimetre atmospheric spectra for characterising potential ground-based remote sensing observations

Emma C. Turner, Stafford Withington, David A. Newnham, Peter Wadhams, Anna E. Jones, and Robin Clancy

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5461–5485, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5461-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5461-2016, 2016

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16 Nov 2016

Improving global detection of volcanic eruptions using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)

Verity J. B. Flower, Thomas Oommen, and Simon A. Carn

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5487–5498, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5487-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5487-2016, 2016

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18 Nov 2016

Errors induced by different approximations in handling horizontal atmospheric inhomogeneities in MIPAS/ENVISAT retrievals

Elisa Castelli, Marco Ridolfi, Massimo Carlotti, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Oliver Kirner, Michael Kiefer, and Bianca Maria Dinelli

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5499–5508, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5499-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5499-2016, 2016

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18 Nov 2016

Comparison of two closed-path cavity-based spectrometers for measuring air–water CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes by eddy covariance

Mingxi Yang, John Prytherch, Elena Kozlova, Margaret J. Yelland, Deepulal Parenkat Mony, and Thomas G. Bell

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5509–5522, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5509-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5509-2016, 2016

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21 Nov 2016

Inferring ²²²Rn soil fluxes from ambient ²²²Rn activity and eddy covariance measurements of CO₂

Sander van der Laan, Swagath Manohar, Alex Vermeulen, Fred Bosveld, Harro Meijer, Andrew Manning, Michiel van der Molen, and Ingrid van der Laan-Luijkx

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5523–5533, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5523-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5523-2016, 2016

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22 Nov 2016

Aerosol data assimilation in the chemical transport model MOCAGE during the TRAQA/ChArMEx campaign: aerosol optical depth

Bojan Sič, Laaziz El Amraoui, Andrea Piacentini, Virginie Marécal, Emanuele Emili, Daniel Cariolle, Michael Prather, and Jean-Luc Attié

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5535–5554, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5535-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5535-2016, 2016

22 Nov 2016

Information content and sensitivity of the 3β + 2α lidar measurement system for aerosol microphysical retrievals

Sharon P. Burton, Eduard Chemyakin, Xu Liu, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Snorre Stamnes, Patricia Sawamura, Richard H. Moore, Chris A. Hostetler, and Richard A. Ferrare

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5555–5574, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5555-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5555-2016, 2016

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23 Nov 2016

Improved MODIS Dark Target aerosol optical depth algorithm over land: angular effect correction

Yerong Wu, Martin de Graaf, and Massimo Menenti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5575–5589, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5575-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5575-2016, 2016

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23 Nov 2016

Impact of biomass burning emission on total peroxy nitrates: fire plume identification during the BORTAS campaign

Eleonora Aruffo, Fabio Biancofiore, Piero Di Carlo, Marcella Busilacchio, Marco Verdecchia, Barbara Tomassetti, Cesare Dari-Salisburgo, Franco Giammaria, Stephane Bauguitte, James Lee, Sarah Moller, James Hopkins, Shalini Punjabi, Stephen J. Andrews, Alistair C. Lewis, Paul I. Palmer, Edward Hyer, Michael Le Breton, and Carl Percival

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5591–5606, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5591-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5591-2016, 2016

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25 Nov 2016

Stratospheric Air Sub-sampler (SAS) and its application to analysis of Δ¹⁷O(CO₂) from small air samples collected with an AirCore

Dorota Janina Mrozek, Carina van der Veen, Magdalena E. G. Hofmann, Huilin Chen, Rigel Kivi, Pauli Heikkinen, and Thomas Röckmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5607–5620, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5607-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5607-2016, 2016

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25 Nov 2016

CFC-11, CFC-12 and HCFC-22 ground-based remote sensing FTIR measurements at Réunion Island and comparisons with MIPAS/ENVISAT data

Minqiang Zhou, Corinne Vigouroux, Bavo Langerock, Pucai Wang, Geoff Dutton, Christian Hermans, Nicolas Kumps, Jean-Marc Metzger, Geoff Toon, and Martine De Mazière

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5621–5636, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5621-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5621-2016, 2016

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25 Nov 2016

A technique for rapid source apportionment applied to ambient organic aerosol measurements from a thermal desorption aerosol gas chromatograph (TAG)

Yaping Zhang, Brent J. Williams, Allen H. Goldstein, Kenneth S. Docherty, and Jose L. Jimenez

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5637–5653, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5637-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5637-2016, 2016

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28 Nov 2016

Parameterization retrieval of trace gas volume mixing ratios from Airborne MAX-DOAS

Barbara Dix, Theodore K. Koenig, and Rainer Volkamer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5655–5675, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5655-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5655-2016, 2016

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29 Nov 2016

Retrieval of absolute SO₂ column amounts from scattered-light spectra: implications for the evaluation of data from automated DOAS networks

Peter Lübcke, Johannes Lampel, Santiago Arellano, Nicole Bobrowski, Florian Dinger, Bo Galle, Gustavo Garzón, Silvana Hidalgo, Zoraida Chacón Ortiz, Leif Vogel, Simon Warnach, and Ulrich Platt

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5677–5698, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5677-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5677-2016, 2016

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29 Nov 2016

Performance of post-processing algorithms for rainfall intensity using measurements from tipping-bucket rain gauges

Mattia Stagnaro, Matteo Colli, Luca Giovanni Lanza, and Pak Wai Chan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5699–5706, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5699-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5699-2016, 2016

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29 Nov 2016

A high-altitude balloon platform for determining exchange of carbon dioxide over agricultural landscapes

Angie Bouche, Bernhard Beck-Winchatz, and Mark J. Potosnak

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5707–5719, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5707-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5707-2016, 2016

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29 Nov 2016

2-D tomography of volcanic CO₂ from scanning hard-target differential absorption lidar: the case of Solfatara, Campi Flegrei (Italy)

Manuel Queißer, Domenico Granieri, and Mike Burton

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5721–5734, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5721-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5721-2016, 2016

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30 Nov 2016

Validation of INSAT-3D sounder data with in situ measurements and other similar satellite observations over India

Madineni Venkat Ratnam, Alladi Hemanth Kumar, and Achuthan Jayaraman

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5735–5745, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5735-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5735-2016, 2016

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30 Nov 2016

Accuracy, precision, and temperature dependence of Pandora total ozone measurements estimated from a comparison with the Brewer triad in Toronto

Xiaoyi Zhao, Vitali Fioletov, Alexander Cede, Jonathan Davies, and Kimberly Strong

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5747–5761, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5747-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5747-2016, 2016

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01 Dec 2016

Measuring OVOCs and VOCs by PTR-MS in an urban roadside microenvironment of Hong Kong: relative humidity and temperature dependence, and field intercomparisons

Long Cui, Zhou Zhang, Yu Huang, Shun Cheng Lee, Donald Ray Blake, Kin Fai Ho, Bei Wang, Yuan Gao, Xin Ming Wang, and Peter Kwok Keung Louie

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5763–5779, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5763-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5763-2016, 2016

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05 Dec 2016

Validation of ACE-FTS version 3.5 NO_y species profiles using correlative satellite measurements

Patrick E. Sheese, Kaley A. Walker, Chris D. Boone, Chris A. McLinden, Peter F. Bernath, Adam E. Bourassa, John P. Burrows, Doug A. Degenstein, Bernd Funke, Didier Fussen, Gloria L. Manney, C. Thomas McElroy, Donal Murtagh, Cora E. Randall, Piera Raspollini, Alexei Rozanov, James M. Russell III, Makoto Suzuki, Masato Shiotani, Joachim Urban, Thomas von Clarmann, and Joseph M. Zawodny

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5781–5810, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5781-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5781-2016, 2016

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05 Dec 2016

Adapted ECC ozonesonde for long-duration flights aboard boundary-layer pressurised balloons

François Gheusi, Pierre Durand, Nicolas Verdier, François Dulac, Jean-Luc Attié, Philippe Commun, Brice Barret, Claude Basdevant, Antoine Clenet, Solène Derrien, Alexis Doerenbecher, Laaziz El Amraoui, Alain Fontaine, Emeric Hache, Corinne Jambert, Elodie Jaumouillé, Yves Meyerfeld, Laurent Roblou, and Flore Tocquer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5811–5832, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5811-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5811-2016, 2016

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06 Dec 2016

Improvement of vertical velocity statistics measured by a Doppler lidar through comparison with sonic anemometer observations

Timothy A. Bonin, Jennifer F. Newman, Petra M. Klein, Phillip B. Chilson, and Sonia Wharton

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5833–5852, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5833-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5833-2016, 2016

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08 Dec 2016

A strategy for the measurement of CO₂ distribution in the stratosphere

Massimo Carlotti, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Giada Innocenti, and Luca Palchetti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5853–5867, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5853-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5853-2016, 2016

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08 Dec 2016

Marine boundary layer cloud property retrievals from high-resolution ASTER observations: case studies and comparison with Terra MODIS

Frank Werner, Galina Wind, Zhibo Zhang, Steven Platnick, Larry Di Girolamo, Guangyu Zhao, Nandana Amarasinghe, and Kerry Meyer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5869–5894, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5869-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5869-2016, 2016

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09 Dec 2016

Harmonisation and diagnostics of MIPAS ESA CH₄ and N₂O profiles using data assimilation

Quentin Errera, Simone Ceccherini, Yves Christophe, Simon Chabrillat, Michaela I. Hegglin, Alyn Lambert, Richard Ménard, Piera Raspollini, Sergey Skachko, Michiel van Weele, and Kaley A. Walker

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5895–5909, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5895-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5895-2016, 2016

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09 Dec 2016

Development of a cloud particle sensor for radiosonde sounding

Masatomo Fujiwara, Takuji Sugidachi, Toru Arai, Kensaku Shimizu, Mayumi Hayashi, Yasuhisa Noma, Hideaki Kawagita, Kazuo Sagara, Taro Nakagawa, Satoshi Okumura, Yoichi Inai, Takashi Shibata, Suginori Iwasaki, and Atsushi Shimizu

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5911–5931, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5911-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5911-2016, 2016

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12 Dec 2016

A Bayesian model to correct underestimated 3-D wind speeds from sonic anemometers increases turbulent components of the surface energy balance

John M. Frank, William J. Massman, and Brent E. Ewers

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5933–5953, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5933-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5933-2016, 2016

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12 Dec 2016

High-resolution observations of small-scale gravity waves and turbulence features in the OH airglow layer

René Sedlak, Patrick Hannawald, Carsten Schmidt, Sabine Wüst, and Michael Bittner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5955–5963, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5955-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5955-2016, 2016

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13 Dec 2016

Tropospheric delay parameters from numerical weather models for multi-GNSS precise positioning

Cuixian Lu, Florian Zus, Maorong Ge, Robert Heinkelmann, Galina Dick, Jens Wickert, and Harald Schuh

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5965–5973, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5965-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5965-2016, 2016

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13 Dec 2016

Thermal infrared laser heterodyne spectroradiometry for solar occultation atmospheric CO₂ measurements

Alex Hoffmann, Neil A. Macleod, Marko Huebner, and Damien Weidmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5975–5996, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5975-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5975-2016, 2016

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13 Dec 2016

Aerosol absorption retrieval at ultraviolet wavelengths in a complex environment

Stelios Kazadzis, Panagiotis Raptis, Natalia Kouremeti, Vassilis Amiridis, Antti Arola, Evangelos Gerasopoulos, and Gregory L. Schuster

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5997–6011, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5997-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5997-2016, 2016

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14 Dec 2016

Deriving clear-sky longwave spectral flux from spaceborne hyperspectral radiance measurements: a case study with AIRS observations

Xiuhong Chen and Xianglei Huang

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6013–6023, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6013-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6013-2016, 2016

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15 Dec 2016

The AOTF-based NO₂ camera

Emmanuel Dekemper, Jurgen Vanhamel, Bert Van Opstal, and Didier Fussen

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6025–6034, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6025-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6025-2016, 2016

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15 Dec 2016

Improvements to the OMI O₂–O₂ operational cloud algorithm and comparisons with ground-based radar–lidar observations

J. Pepijn Veefkind, Johan F. de Haan, Maarten Sneep, and Pieternel F. Levelt

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6035–6049, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6035-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6035-2016, 2016

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15 Dec 2016

Evaluating the influence of laser wavelength and detection stage geometry on optical detection efficiency in a single-particle mass spectrometer

Nicholas Marsden, Michael J. Flynn, Jonathan W. Taylor, James D. Allan, and Hugh Coe

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6051–6068, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6051-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6051-2016, 2016

15 Dec 2016

Retrievals of heavy ozone with MIPAS

Bastiaan Jonkheid, Thomas Röckmann, Norbert Glatthor, Christof Janssen, Gabriele Stiller, and Thomas von Clarmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6069–6079, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6069-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6069-2016, 2016

20 Dec 2016

Global distributions of CO₂ volume mixing ratio in the middle and upper atmosphere from daytime MIPAS high-resolution spectra

Á. Aythami Jurado-Navarro, Manuel López-Puertas, Bernd Funke, Maya García-Comas, Angela Gardini, Francisco González-Galindo, Gabriele P. Stiller, Thomas von Clarmann, Udo Grabowski, and Andrea Linden

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6081–6100, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6081-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6081-2016, 2016

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21 Dec 2016

Detection of formaldehyde emissions from an industrial zone in the Yangtze River Delta region of China using a proton transfer reaction ion-drift chemical ionization mass spectrometer

Yan Ma, Yiwei Diao, Bingjie Zhang, Weiwei Wang, Xinrong Ren, Dongsen Yang, Ming Wang, Xiaowen Shi, and Jun Zheng

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6101–6116, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6101-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6101-2016, 2016

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22 Dec 2016

Effect of secondary organic aerosol coating thickness on the real-time detection and characterization of biomass-burning soot by two particle mass spectrometers

Adam T. Ahern, Ramachandran Subramanian, Georges Saliba, Eric M. Lipsky, Neil M. Donahue, and Ryan C. Sullivan

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 6117–6137, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6117-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-6117-2016, 2016

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