Accounting for the effect of horizontal gradients in limb measurements of scattered sunlight
Limb measurements provided by the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) on the ENVISAT satellite allow retrieving stratospheric profiles of various trace gases on a global scale, among them BrO for the first time. For limb observations in the UV/VIS spectr...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00048186 2023-05-15T15:11:10+02:00 Accounting for the effect of horizontal gradients in limb measurements of scattered sunlight Puķīte, J. Kühl, S. Deutschmann, T. Platt, U. Wagner, T. 2008-06 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-3045-2008 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00048186 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00047806/acp-8-3045-2008.pdf https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/8/3045/2008/acp-8-3045-2008.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics -- http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/volumes_and_issues.html -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2069847 -- 1680-7324 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-3045-2008 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00048186 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00047806/acp-8-3045-2008.pdf https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/8/3045/2008/acp-8-3045-2008.pdf uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2008 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-3045-2008 2022-02-08T22:38:06Z Limb measurements provided by the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) on the ENVISAT satellite allow retrieving stratospheric profiles of various trace gases on a global scale, among them BrO for the first time. For limb observations in the UV/VIS spectral region the instrument measures scattered light with a complex distribution of light paths: the light is measured at different tangent heights and can be scattered or absorbed in the atmosphere or reflected by the ground. By means of spectroscopy and radiative transfer modelling these measurements can be inverted to retrieve the vertical distribution of stratospheric trace gases. The fully spherical 3-D Monte Carlo radiative transfer model "Tracy-II" is applied in this study. The Monte Carlo method benefits from conceptual simplicity and allows realizing the concept of full spherical geometry of the atmosphere and also its 3-D properties, which is important for a realistic description of the limb geometry. Furthermore it allows accounting for horizontal gradients in the distribution of trace gases. In this study the effect of horizontally inhomogeneous distributions of trace gases along flight/viewing direction on the retrieval of profiles is investigated. We introduce a tomographic method to correct for this effect by combining consecutive limb scanning sequences and utilizing the overlap in their measurement sensitivity regions. It is found that if horizontal inhomogenity is not properly accounted for, typical errors of 20% for NO2 and up to 50% for OClO around the altitude of the profile peak can arise for measurements close to the Arctic polar vortex boundary in boreal winter. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 8 12 3045 3060 |
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Limb measurements provided by the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) on the ENVISAT satellite allow retrieving stratospheric profiles of various trace gases on a global scale, among them BrO for the first time. For limb observations in the UV/VIS spectral region the instrument measures scattered light with a complex distribution of light paths: the light is measured at different tangent heights and can be scattered or absorbed in the atmosphere or reflected by the ground. By means of spectroscopy and radiative transfer modelling these measurements can be inverted to retrieve the vertical distribution of stratospheric trace gases. The fully spherical 3-D Monte Carlo radiative transfer model "Tracy-II" is applied in this study. The Monte Carlo method benefits from conceptual simplicity and allows realizing the concept of full spherical geometry of the atmosphere and also its 3-D properties, which is important for a realistic description of the limb geometry. Furthermore it allows accounting for horizontal gradients in the distribution of trace gases. In this study the effect of horizontally inhomogeneous distributions of trace gases along flight/viewing direction on the retrieval of profiles is investigated. We introduce a tomographic method to correct for this effect by combining consecutive limb scanning sequences and utilizing the overlap in their measurement sensitivity regions. It is found that if horizontal inhomogenity is not properly accounted for, typical errors of 20% for NO2 and up to 50% for OClO around the altitude of the profile peak can arise for measurements close to the Arctic polar vortex boundary in boreal winter. |
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Accounting for the effect of horizontal gradients in limb measurements of scattered sunlight |
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Accounting for the effect of horizontal gradients in limb measurements of scattered sunlight |
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