Volume 9, issue 3

Volume 9, issue 3

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 PM2.5 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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