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    Martian Ozone Observed by TGO/NOMAD-UVIS Solar Occultation: An Inter-Comparison of Three Retrieval Methods

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    Piccialli, A.
    Vandaele, A.C.
    Willame, Y.
    Määttänen, A.
    Trompet, L.
    Erwin, J.T.
    Daerden, F.
    Neary, L.
    Aoki, S.
    Viscardy, S.
    Thomas, I.R.
    Depiesse, C.
    Ristic, B.
    Mason, J.P.
    Patel, M.R.
    Wolff, M.J.
    Khayat, A.S.J.
    Bellucci, G.
    Lopez-Moreno, J.-J.
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    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Subject
    planetary atmospheres
    Mars
    ozone
    retrieval methods
    filtering criteria
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2023
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    The NOMAD-UVIS instrument on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has been investigating the Martian atmosphere with the occultation technique since April 2018. Here, we analyze almost two Mars Years of ozone vertical distributions acquired at the day-night terminator. The ozone retrievals proved more difficult than expected due to spurious detections of ozone caused by instrumental effects, high dust content, and very low values of ozone. This led us to compare the results from three different retrieval approaches: (a) an onion peeling method, (b) a full occultation Optimal Estimation Method, and (c) a direct onion peeling method. The three methods produce consistently similar results, especially where ozone densities are higher. The main challenge was to find reliable criteria to exclude spurious detections of O3, and we finally adopted two criteria for filtering: (a) a detection limit, and (b) the Δχ2 criterion. Both criteria exclude spurious O3 values especially near the perihelion (180° < Ls < 340°), where up to 98% of ozone detections are filtered out, in agreement with general circulation models, that expect very low values of ozone in this season. Our agrees well with published analysis of the NOMAD-UVIS data set, as we confirm the main features observed previously, that is, the high-altitude ozone peak around 40 km at high latitudes. The filtering approaches are in good agreement with those implemented for the SPICAM/MEx observations and underline the need to evaluate carefully the quality of ozone retrievals in occultations.
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    Piccialli, A.; Vandaele, A.C.; Willame, Y.; Määttänen, A.; Trompet, L.; Erwin, J.T.; Daerden, F.; Neary, L.; Aoki, S.; Viscardy, S.; Thomas, I.R.; Depiesse, C.; Ristic, B.; Mason, J.P.; Patel, M.R.; Wolff, M.J.; Khayat, A.S.J.; Bellucci, G.; Lopez-Moreno, J.-J. (2023). Martian Ozone Observed by TGO/NOMAD-UVIS Solar Occultation: An Inter-Comparison of Three Retrieval Methods. , Earth and Space Science, Vol. 10, Issue 2, e2022EA002429, DOI: 10.1029/2022EA002429.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/10755
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002429
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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