Development of the optimal estimation method for inversion of stratospheric emission spectra and validation of HNO3 profiles

• Main Author: Fiorucci, Irene <1980>
• Other Authors: Bianchi, Cesidio
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2010
• Subjects: GEO/10 Geofisica della terra solida; Greenland; South Pole; Thule Air Base; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole; Thule Air; Thule
• Online Access: http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2933/; http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2933/1/fiorucci_irene_tesi.pdf

This doctoral thesis focuses on ground-based measurements of stratospheric nitric acid (HNO3)concentrations obtained by means of the Ground-Based Millimeter-wave Spectrometer (GBMS). Pressure broadened HNO3 emission spectra are analyzed using a new inversion algorithm developed as part of this thesi...