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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-765-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-765-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-765-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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02 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 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

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RC C4360: 'review of AMT-2015-335', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Dec 2015
RC C4515: 'Review of “Validation of revised methane and nitrous oxide profiles from MIPAS-ENVISAT” by Plieninger et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Dec 2015
AC C5401: 'Final response', J. Plieninger, 10 Feb 2016

Short summary

We compare concentration profiles of methane and nitrous oxide measured from MIPAS-ENVISAT and derived with a new retrieval setup to those measured by other satellite instruments and to surface measurements. For methane we use profiles measured by ACE-FTS, HALOE and SCIAMACHY; for nitrous oxide we use profiles measured by ACE-FTS, Aura-MLS and Odin-SMR for the comparisons. We give a quantitative bias estimation and compare the estimated errors provided by the instruments.