Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation
<p>The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the A-Train Aura satellite was designed to profile tropospheric ozone and its precursors, taking measurements from 2004 to 2018. Starting in 2008, TES global sampling of tropospheric ozone was gradually reduced in latitude, with global cove...
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| author | D. Fu S. S. Kulawik K. Miyazaki K. W. Bowman J. R. Worden A. Eldering N. J. Livesey J. Teixeira F. W. Irion R. L. Herman G. B. Osterman X. Liu P. F. Levelt P. F. Levelt A. M. Thompson M. Luo |
| author_facet | D. Fu S. S. Kulawik K. Miyazaki K. W. Bowman J. R. Worden A. Eldering N. J. Livesey J. Teixeira F. W. Irion R. L. Herman G. B. Osterman X. Liu P. F. Levelt P. F. Levelt A. M. Thompson M. Luo |
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| description | <p>The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the A-Train Aura satellite
was designed to profile tropospheric ozone and its precursors, taking
measurements from 2004 to 2018. Starting in 2008, TES global sampling of
tropospheric ozone was gradually reduced in latitude, with global coverage
stopping in 2011. To extend the record of TES, this work presents a
multispectral approach that will provide O<sub>3</sub> data products with
vertical resolution and measurement error similar to TES by combining the
single-footprint thermal infrared (TIR) hyperspectral radiances from the Aqua
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and the ultraviolet (UV)
channels from the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). The joint
AIRS+OMI O<sub>3</sub> retrievals are processed through the MUlti-SpEctra,
MUlti-SpEcies, MUlti-SEnsors (MUSES) retrieval algorithm. Comparisons of
collocated joint AIRS+OMI and TES to ozonesonde measurements show that both
systems have similar errors, with mean and standard deviation of the
differences well within the estimated measurement error. AIRS+OMI and TES
have slightly different biases (within 5 parts per billion) vs. the sondes.
Both AIRS and OMI have wide swath widths ( ∼ 1650 km for AIRS; ∼ 2600 km for OMI) across satellite ground tracks. Consequently, the joint
AIRS+OMI measurements have the potential to maintain TES vertical
sensitivity while increasing coverage by 2 orders of magnitude, thus
providing an unprecedented new data set with which to quantify the evolution
of tropospheric ozone.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aebf3ccf2981475bb9f5b59fd0abda802022-12-21T23:10:00ZengCopernicus PublicationsAtmospheric Measurement Techniques1867-13811867-85482018-10-01115587560510.5194/amt-11-5587-2018Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validationD. Fu0S. S. Kulawik1K. Miyazaki2K. W. Bowman3J. R. Worden4A. Eldering5N. J. Livesey6J. Teixeira7F. W. Irion8R. L. Herman9G. B. Osterman10X. Liu11P. F. Levelt12P. F. Levelt13A. M. Thompson14M. Luo15NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USABay Area Environmental Research Institute/NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, USAJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, JapanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USAHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USARoyal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3731 GA, the NetherlandsFaculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Technology Delft, Delft, 2628 CN, the NetherlandsNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USANASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA<p>The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the A-Train Aura satellite was designed to profile tropospheric ozone and its precursors, taking measurements from 2004 to 2018. Starting in 2008, TES global sampling of tropospheric ozone was gradually reduced in latitude, with global coverage stopping in 2011. To extend the record of TES, this work presents a multispectral approach that will provide O<sub>3</sub> data products with vertical resolution and measurement error similar to TES by combining the single-footprint thermal infrared (TIR) hyperspectral radiances from the Aqua Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and the ultraviolet (UV) channels from the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). The joint AIRS+OMI O<sub>3</sub> retrievals are processed through the MUlti-SpEctra, MUlti-SpEcies, MUlti-SEnsors (MUSES) retrieval algorithm. Comparisons of collocated joint AIRS+OMI and TES to ozonesonde measurements show that both systems have similar errors, with mean and standard deviation of the differences well within the estimated measurement error. AIRS+OMI and TES have slightly different biases (within 5 parts per billion) vs. the sondes. Both AIRS and OMI have wide swath widths ( ∼ 1650 km for AIRS; ∼ 2600 km for OMI) across satellite ground tracks. Consequently, the joint AIRS+OMI measurements have the potential to maintain TES vertical sensitivity while increasing coverage by 2 orders of magnitude, thus providing an unprecedented new data set with which to quantify the evolution of tropospheric ozone.</p>https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/11/5587/2018/amt-11-5587-2018.pdf |
| spellingShingle | D. Fu S. S. Kulawik K. Miyazaki K. W. Bowman J. R. Worden A. Eldering N. J. Livesey J. Teixeira F. W. Irion R. L. Herman G. B. Osterman X. Liu P. F. Levelt P. F. Levelt A. M. Thompson M. Luo Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation Atmospheric Measurement Techniques |
| title | Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation |
| title_full | Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation |
| title_fullStr | Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation |
| title_short | Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation |
| title_sort | retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of airs and omi methodology and validation |
| url | https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/11/5587/2018/amt-11-5587-2018.pdf |
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