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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2845-2016
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2845-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Review article
| 
07 Jul 2016
Review article |
| 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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Andreas Wiegele
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sabine Barthlott
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Yenny González
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Sieltec Canarias, S.L., Hábitat 2, 38204, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
now at: Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA
Emanuel Christner
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Christoph Dyroff
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Aerodyne Research Inc., 45 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Omaira E. García
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Frank Hase
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Blumenstock
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Eliezer Sepúlveda
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Gizaw Mengistu Tsidu
Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Botswana International University of Technology and Science (BIUST) Priv. Bag 16, Palapye, Botswana
Samuel Takele Kenea
Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
now at: Department of Physics, Samara University, P.O. Box 132, Samara, Ethiopia
Sergio Rodríguez
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Javier Andrey
Area de Investigación e Instrumentación Atmosférica, INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
now at: CNRM-GAME, Météo France and CNRS, Toulouse, France
Data sets
The ground-based MUSICA dataset: Tropospheric water vapour isotopologues (H_2^16O, H_2^18O and HD^16O) as obtained from NDACC/FTIR solar absorption spectra S. Barthlott, M. Schneider, F. Hase, T. Blumenstock, G. Mengistu Tsidu, M. Grutter de la Mora, K. Strong, J. Notholt, E. Mahieu, N. Jones, and D. Smale, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.48902
International in situ water isotope database LSCE, IIE UB RAS & UrFU https://waterisotopes.lsce.ipsl.fr
NDACC database Authors unknown ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ndacc/MUSICA/
Short summary
Tropospheric {H2O,δD} pairs can be observed by remote sensing techniques, but the data quality strongly depends on a comprehensive consideration of the complex nature and a careful calibration of the remote sensing data pairs. This paper reviews the quality assurance/documentation activities of the MUSICA project and demonstrates that MUSICA’s ground-based FTIR and space-based IASI {H2O,δD} pair products are accurate and can be generated at a global scale with high resolution and for long periods.
Tropospheric {H2O,δD} pairs can be observed by remote sensing techniques, but the data quality...
