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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2497–2534, 2016

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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2497–2534, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Research article 08 Jun 2016

Research article | 08 Jun 2016

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

Daan Hubert et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016-supplement

Data sets

SAGE II v7.0 data J. M. Zawodny et al. https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/sage2/sage2_v7_table

SAGE III v4.0 data J. M. Zawodny et al. https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/sage3/sage3_table

HALOE v19 data J. M. Russell III et al. http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/uui/datasets/UARHA2FN_V001/summary

UARS MLS v5 data L. Froidevaux et al. http://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/uars/data.php

EOS-Aura MLS v3.3 data L. Froidevaux et al. http://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/overview.php

POAM II v6 data K. W. Hoppel et al. https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/poam2/poam2_table

POAM III v4 data K. W. Hoppel et al. https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/poam3/poam3_table

OSIRIS v5.07 data D. A. Degenstein et al. http://odin-osiris.usask.ca

SMR 501GHz v2.1 data J. Urban et al. http://odin.rss.chalmers.se

GOMOS IPF 6.01 data E. Kyrölä et al. https://earth.esa.int/web/sppa/mission-performance/esa-missions/envisat/gomos/products-and-algorithms/products-information

MIPAS ML2PP 6.0 data P. Raspollini et al. https://earth.esa.int/web/sppa/mission-performance/esa-missions/envisat/mipas/products-and-algorithms/products-information

SCIAMACHY SGP 5.02 data G. Lichtenberg et al. https://earth.esa.int/web/sppa/mission-performance/esa-missions/envisat/sciamachy/products-and-algorithms/products-information

ACE-FTS v3.0 data C. D. Boone et al. http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/data.html

MAESTRO v1.2 data C. T. McElroy et al. http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/data.html

ERA-Interim meteorological data European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) http://apps.ecmwf.int/mars-catalogue

NDACC Data Host Facility Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov/data

WOUDC data archive World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) http://woudc.org/data/explore.php

SHADOZ data archive A. M. Thompson et al. http://croc.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz

Short summary

A more detailed understanding of satellite O₃ profile data records is vital for further progress in O₃ research. To this end, we made a comprehensive assessment of 14 limb/occultation profilers using ground-based reference data. The mutual consistency of satellite O₃ in terms of bias, short-term variability and decadal stability is generally good over most of the stratosphere. However, we identified some exceptions that impact the quality of recently merged data sets and ozone trend assessments.