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    Advanced Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Retrieval for Applications—Surface Ultraviolet Radiation Products

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    Lipponen, A.
    Ceccherini, S.
    Cortesi, U.
    Gai, M.
    Keppens, A.
    Masini, A.
    Simeone, E.
    Tirelli, C.
    Arola, A.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    ultraviolet radiation
    UV index
    radiative transfer modeling
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2020
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    AURORA (Advanced Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Retrieval for Applications) is a three-year project supported by the European Union in the frame of its H2020 Call (EO-2-2015) for “Stimulating wider research use of Copernicus Sentinel Data”. The project addresses key scientific issues relevant for synergistic exploitation of data acquired in different spectral ranges by different instruments on board the atmospheric Sentinels. A novel approach, based on the assimilation of geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) and low Earth orbit (LEO) fused products by application of an innovative algorithm to Sentinel-4 (S-4) and Sentinel-5 (S-5) synthetic data, is adopted to assess the quality of the unique ozone vertical profile obtained in a context simulating the operational environment. The first priority is then attributed to the lower atmosphere with calculation of tropospheric columns and ultraviolet (UV) surface radiation from the resulting ozone vertical distribution. Here we provide details on the surface UV algorithm of AURORA. Both UV index (UVI) and UV-A irradiance are provided from synthetic satellite measurements, which in turn are based on atmospheric scenarios from MERRA-2 (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2) re-analysis. The UV algorithm is implemented in a software tool integrated in the technological infrastructure developed in the context of AURORA for the management of the synthetic data and for supporting the data processing. This was closely linked to the application-oriented activities of the project, aimed to improve the performance and functionality of a downstream application for personal UV dosimetry based on satellite data. The use of synthetic measurements from MERRA-2 gives us also a “ground truth”, against which to evaluate the performance of our UV model with varying inputs. In this study we both describe the UV algorithm itself and assess the influence that changes in ozone profiles, due to the fusion and assimilation, can cause in surface UV levels.
    Citation
    Lipponen, A.; Ceccherini, S.; Cortesi, U.; Gai, M.; Keppens, A.; Masini, A.; Simeone, E.; Tirelli, C.; Arola, A. (2020). Advanced Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Retrieval for Applications—Surface Ultraviolet Radiation Products. , Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Issue 4, A324, DOI: 10.3390/atmos11040324.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/7479
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11040324
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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