VALIDATION OF MIPAS-ENVISAT BY CORRELATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF MIPAS-STR

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Kiruna; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.501.3304; http://www-imk.fzk.de/asf/mipas-str/documents/publications/keim_frascati04.pdf

We report on the validation of profiles from the MIPAS-Envisat on-line processor of ESA version 4.61 with correlative measurements derived from MIPAS-STR onboard the high-altitude aircraft M55-Geophy-sica. The validation is made for the July 22, 2002, orbit 2051 in the region of the campaign base in Forlí, Italy [1] and for several orbits in February / March 2003 around Kiruna, northern Sweden. This paper includes a careful comparison of the MIPAS-STR data with O3 sondes and with in-situ measurements from the Geophysica obtained during ascent, descent and occasional dives. To obtain accurate N2O and CH4 profiles close to the MIPAS-Envisat tangent points we used the MIPAS-STR measurements of CFC-11 and