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- Validation of ACE-FTS satellite data in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) using non-coincident measurements
Validation of ACE-FTS satellite data in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) using non-coincident measurements
Auteur :
Hegglin
M. I.,
Boone
C. D.,
Manney
G. L.,
... [et al. ]
Date de publication : 13/03/2008
Type : Article
Thème : Atmosphère
Couverture :
Maroc
URL Article :
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/1483/2008/acp-8-1483-2008.pdfURL Source :
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/ 
Télécharger le document :
(3,03 MB) Validation of ACE-FTS satellite data in the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere.pdfRésumé/Sommaire :
CO, O3, and H2O data in the upper troposphere/ lower stratosphere (UTLS) measured by the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) on Canada’s SCISAT-1 satellite are validated using aircraft and ozonesonde measurements. In the UTLS, validation of chemical trace gas measurements is a challenging task due to small-scale variability in the tracer fields, strong gradients of the tracers across the tropopause, and scarcity of measurements suitable for validation purposes. Validation based on coincidences therefore suffers from geophysical noise. Two alternative methods for the validation of satellite data are introduced, which avoid the usual need for coincident measurements : tracer-tracer correlations, and vertical tracer profiles relative to tropopause height. Both are increasingly being used for model validation as they strongly suppress geophysical variability and thereby provide an “instantaneous climatology”. This allows comparison of measurements between non-coincident data sets which yields information about the precision and a statistically meaningful error-assessment of the ACE-FTS satellite data in the UTLS. By defining a trade-off factor, we show that the measurement errors can be reduced by including more measurements obtained over a wider longitude range into the comparison, despite the increased geophysical variability.
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