CO measurements from the ACE-FTS satellite instrument: Data analysis and validation using ground-based, airborne and spaceborne observations
| dc.contributor.author | Clerbaux, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | George, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Turquety, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Walker, K.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barret, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bernath, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Boone, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Borsdorff, T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cammas, J.P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Catoire, V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coffey, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coheur, P.-F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Deeter, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Mazière, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Drummond, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duchatelet, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dupuy, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Zafra, R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eddounia, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Edwards, D.P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Emmons, L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Funke, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gille, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Griffith, D.W.T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hannigan, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hase, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Höpfner, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jones, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kagawa, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kasai, Y. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kramer, I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Le Flochmoën, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Livesey, N.J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | López-Puertas, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Luo, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mahieu, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Murtagh, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nédélec, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pazmino, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pumphrey, H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ricaud, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rinsland, C.P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Robert, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schneider, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Senten, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stiller, G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strandberg, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strong, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sussmann, R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thouret, V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Urban, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wiacek, A. | |
| dc.date | 2008 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-21T09:32:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-21T09:32:09Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/4295 | |
| dc.description | The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) mission was launched in August 2003 to sound the atmosphere by solar occultation. Carbon monoxide (CO), a good tracer of pollution plumes and atmospheric dynamics, is one of the key species provided by the primary instrument, the ACE-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS). This instrument performs measurements in both the CO 1-0 and 2-0 ro-vibrational bands, from which vertically resolved CO concentration profiles are retrieved, from the mid-troposphere to the thermosphere. This paper presents an updated description of the ACE-FTS version 2.2 CO data product, along with a comprehensive validation of these profiles using available observations (February 2004 to December 2006). We have compared the CO partial columns with ground-based measurements using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and millimeter wave radiometry, and the volume mixing ratio profiles with airborne (both high-altitude balloon flight and airplane) observations. CO satellite observations provided by nadir-looking instruments (MOPITT and TES) as well as limb-viewing remote sensors (MIPAS, SMR and MLS) were also compared with the ACE-FTS CO products. We show that the ACE-FTS measurements provide CO profiles with small retrieval errors (better than 5% from the upper troposphere to 40 km, and better than 10% above). These observations agree well with the correlative measurements, considering the rather loose coincidence criteria in some cases. Based on the validation exercise we assess the following uncertainties to the ACE-FTS measurement data: better than 15% in the upper troposphere (8-12 km), than 30% in the lower stratosphere (12-30 km), and than 25% from 30 to 100 km. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.title | CO measurements from the ACE-FTS satellite instrument: Data analysis and validation using ground-based, airborne and spaceborne observations | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.subject.frascati | Earth and related Environmental sciences | |
| dc.audience | Scientific | |
| dc.source.title | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | |
| dc.source.volume | 8 | |
| dc.source.issue | 9 | |
| dc.source.page | 2569-2594 | |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | Yes | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5194/acp-8-2569-2008 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-47149092921 |
