© Author(s) 2007. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

• Main Authors: Comparisons Between Ground-based Ftir, Mipas No, Hno Profiles Before, C. Vigouroux, M. De Mazière, Q. Errera, S. Chabrillat, E. Mahieu, P. Duchatelet, S. Wood, D. Smale, S. Mikuteit, T. Blumenstock, F. Hase, N. Jones
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arrival Heights; Kiruna; Ular
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.619.1243; http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/7/377/2007/acp-7-377-2007.pdf

Abstract. Within the framework of the Network for Detec-tion of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), reg-ular ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) mea-surements of many species are performed at several loca-tions. Inversion schemes provide vertical profile informa-tion and characterization of the retrieved products which are therefore relevant for contributing to the validation of MIPAS profiles in the stratosphere and upper troposphere. We have focused on the species HNO3 and N2O at 5 NDACC-sites distributed in both hemispheres, i.e., Jungfraujoch (46.5 ◦ N) and Kiruna (68 ◦ N) for the northern hemisphere, and Wol-longong (34 ◦ S), Lauder (45 ◦ S) and Arrival Heights (78 ◦ S) for the southern hemisphere. These ground-based data have been compared with MIPAS offline profiles (v4.61) for the year 2003, collocated within 1000 km around the stations, in