1. Validation of 10-year SAO OMI Ozone Profile (PROFOZ) product using ozonesonde observations
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Tristan J. Hall, Bertrand Calpini, Bogumil Kois, Roeland Van Malderen, René Stübi, Marion Marchand, Marc Allaart, Masatomo Fujiwara, Thierry Leblanc, Anne M. Thompson, M.B. Tully, Richard Querel, Everette Joseph, Françoise Posny, Ghassan Taha, Kai Yang, Zhaonan Cai, Giovanni Laneve, Michael J. Newchurch, Manvendra K. Dubey, Gary A. Morris, Hugo De Backer, Rinus Scheele, Xiong Liu, Jacquelyn C. Witte, Kenneth R. Minschwaner, Nozomu Ohkawara, Ankie Piters, Kelly Chance, Shin-Ya Ogino, Margarita Yela, Ninong Komala, Emilio Cuevas-Agulló, H. B. Selkirk, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Guanyu Huang, Manuel Cupeiro, Valérie Thouret, Holger Vömel, Russell C. Schnell, Gerrie Coetzee, Pawan K. Bhartia, Masato Shiotani, Gérard Ancellet, Otto Schrems, Bryan J. Johnson, Gert König-Langlo, Rigel Kivi, F. J. Schmidlin, Peter von der Gathen, P. Skrivankova, David W. Tarasick, Henry E. Fuelberg, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University [Cambridge]-Smithsonian Institution, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science [College Park] (AOSC), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), TROPO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Payerne Aerological Station, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, South African Weather Service (SAWS), Izaña Atmospheric Research Center (IARC), Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMet), National Meteorological Service [Ushuaia], Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] (IRM), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science [Tallahassee] (FSU | EOAS), Florida State University [Tallahassee] (FSU), Faculty of Environmental Earth Science [Sapporo], Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], STRATO - LATMOS, ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory [Boulder] (GML), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), University at Albany [SUNY], State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute (IMGW - PIB), Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Earth Observation Satellite Images Applications Laboratory (EOSIAL), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Department of Physics [Socorro], New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology [New Mexico Tech] (NMT), St. Edward's University, Department of Atmospheric Science [Huntsville], University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Department of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes Research (DCOP), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Global Environment and Marine Department [Tokyo], Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de La Réunion (OSU-Réunion), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR), National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Lauder] (NIWA), Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University [Kyoto], Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), Environment and Climate Change Canada, Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Australian Bureau of Meteorology [Melbourne] (BoM), Australian Government, Earth Observing Laboratory [Boulder] (EOL), National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder] (NCAR)-University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Science Systems and Applications, Inc. [Lanham] (SSAI), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Harvard University-Smithsonian Institution, Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] - Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France, Kyoto University, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Atmospheric Science ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Cloud cover ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,Latitude ,Troposphere ,Ozone layer ,lcsh:TA170-171 ,Stratosphere ,021101 geological & geomatics engineering ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,validation ,Ozone Monitoring Instrument ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph] ,[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,lcsh:TA715-787 ,Anomaly (natural sciences) ,OMI ,lcsh:Earthwork. Foundations ,ozone ,lcsh:Environmental engineering ,Trace gas ,13. Climate action ,Climatology ,Environmental science - Abstract
We validate the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Ozone Profile (PROFOZ) product from October 2004 through December 2014 retrieved by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) algorithm against ozonesonde observations. We also evaluate the effects of OMI row anomaly (RA) on the retrieval by dividing the dataset into before and after the occurrence of serious OMI RA, i.e., pre-RA (2004–2008) and post-RA (2009–2014). The retrieval shows good agreement with ozonesondes in the tropics and midlatitudes and for pressure ∼ 50 hPa after applying OMI averaging kernels to ozonesonde data. The MBs of the stratospheric ozone column (SOC, the ozone column from the tropopause pressure to the ozonesonde burst pressure) are within 2 % with SDs of ∼ 50 hPa. The SOC MBs increase up to 3 % with SDs as great as 6 % and the TOC SDs increase up to 30 %. The comparison generally degrades at larger solar zenith angles (SZA) due to weaker signals and additional sources of error, leading to worse performance at high latitudes and during the midlatitude winter. Agreement also degrades with increasing cloudiness for pressure > ∼ 100 hPa and varies with cross-track position, especially with large MBs and SDs at extreme off-nadir positions. In the tropics and midlatitudes, the post-RA comparison is considerably worse with larger SDs reaching 2 % in the stratosphere and 8 % in the troposphere and up to 6 % in TOC. There are systematic differences that vary with latitude compared to the pre-RA comparison. The retrieval comparison demonstrates good long-term stability during the pre-RA period but exhibits a statistically significant trend of 0.14–0.7 % year−1 for pressure
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- 2017