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Articles | Volume 9, issue 12
Articles | Volume 9, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5781-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5781-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 9, issue 12
Research article
 | 
05 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 05 Dec 2016

Validation of ACE-FTS version 3.5 NOy 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

Data sets

ACE-FTS Level 2 data ACE-FTS http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca

SMILES data DARTS (Data Archives and Transmission System) https://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/iss/smiles/

GOMOS data ESA (European Space Agency) https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/data-access

MIPAS ESA data ESA (European Space Agency) https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/data-access

MLS data GES DISC (Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center) http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/data-holdings/MLS/index.shtml

HALOE data HALOE http://haloe.gats-inc.com/download/index.php

SCIAMACHY data IUP, Universität Bremen http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/scia-arc/

MIPAS IMK-IAA data KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/308.php

POAM III data NASA https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/poam3/poam3_table

SAGE III data NASA https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/sage3/sage3_table

SMR data Odin/SMR (Odin/SMR Project Portal) http://odin.rss.chalmers.se

OSIRIS data University of Saskatchewan http://odin-osiris.usask.ca

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Short summary
This study validates version 3.5 of the ACE-FTS NOy species data sets by comparing diurnally scaled ACE-FTS data to correlative data from 11 other satellite limb sounders. For all five species examined (NO, NO2, HNO3, N2O5, and ClONO2), there is good agreement between ACE-FTS and the other data sets in various regions of the atmosphere. In these validated regions, these NOy data products can be used for further investigation into the composition, dynamics, and climate of the stratosphere.
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