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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 PM_2.5 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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