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    Nitrous Oxide Profiling from Infrared Radiances (NOPIR): Algorithm Description, Application to 10 Years of IASI Observations and Quality Assessment

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    Vandenbussche, S.
    Langerock, B.
    Vigouroux, C.
    Buschmann, M.
    Deutscher, N.M.
    Feist, D.G.
    García, O.
    Hannigan, J.W.
    Hase, F.
    Kivi, R.
    Kumps, N.
    Makarova, M.
    Millet, D.B.
    Morino, I.
    Nagahama, T.
    Notholt, J.
    Ohyama, H.
    Ortega, I.
    Petri, C.
    Rettinger, M.
    Schneider, M.
    Servais, C.P.
    Sha, M.K.
    Shiomi, K.
    Smale, D.
    Strong, K.
    Sussmann, R.
    Té, Y.
    Velazco, V.A.
    Vrekoussis, M.
    Warneke, T.
    Wells, K.C.
    Wunch, D.
    Zhou, M.
    De Mazière, M.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    IASI
    nitrous oxide
    greenhouse gas
    retrieval
    validation
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2022
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    Description
    Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the third most abundant anthropogenous greenhouse gas (after carbon dioxide and methane), with a long atmospheric lifetime and a continuously increasing concentration due to human activities, making it an important gas to monitor. In this work, we present a new method to retrieve N2O concentration profiles (with up to two degrees of freedom) from each cloud-free satellite observation by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), using spectral micro-windows in the N2O ν3 band, the Radiative Transfer for TOVS (RTTOV) tools and the Tikhonov regularization scheme. A time series of ten years (2011–2020) of IASI N2O profiles and integrated partial columns has been produced and validated with collocated ground-based Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) and Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) data. The importance of consistency in the ancillary data used for the retrieval for generating consistent time series has been demonstrated. The Nitrous Oxide Profiling from Infrared Radiances (NOPIR) N2O partial columns are of very good quality, with a positive bias of 1.8 to 4% with respect to the ground-based data, which is less than the sum of uncertainties of the compared values. At high latitudes, the comparisons are a bit worse, due to either a known bias in the ground-based data, or to a higher uncertainty in both ground-based and satellite retrievals.
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    Vandenbussche, S.; Langerock, B.; Vigouroux, C.; Buschmann, M.; Deutscher, N.M.; Feist, D.G.; García, O.; Hannigan, J.W.; Hase, F.; Kivi, R.; Kumps, N.; Makarova, M.; Millet, D.B.; Morino, I.; Nagahama, T.; Notholt, J.; Ohyama, H.; Ortega, I.; Petri, C.; Rettinger, M.; Schneider, M.; Servais, C.P.; Sha, M.K.; Shiomi, K.; Smale, D.; Strong, K.; Sussmann, R.; Té, Y.; Velazco, V.A.; Vrekoussis, M.; Warneke, T.; Wells, K.C.; Wunch, D.; Zhou, M.; De Mazière, M. (2022). Nitrous Oxide Profiling from Infrared Radiances (NOPIR): Algorithm Description, Application to 10 Years of IASI Observations and Quality Assessment. , Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, Issue 8, A1810, DOI: 10.3390/rs14081810.
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/9900
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14081810
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    Article
    Peer-Review
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    Language
    eng
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