Tropical tropospheric ozone from total ozone mapping spectrometer by a modified residual method

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (D17) ◽  
pp. 22129-22145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Hudson ◽  
Anne M. Thompson
2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Newchurch ◽  
D. Sun ◽  
J. H. Kim ◽  
X. Liu

Abstract. Using TOMS total-ozone measurements over high-altitude cloud locations and nearby paired clear locations, we describe the Clear-Cloudy Pairs (CCP) method for deriving tropical tropospheric ozone. The high-altitude clouds are identified by measured 380 nm reflectivities greater than 80% and Temperature Humidity InfraRed (THIR) measured cloud-top pressures less than 200 hPa. To account for locations without high-altitude clouds, we apply a zonal sine fitting to the stratospheric ozone derived from available cloudy points, resulting in a wave-one amplitude of about 4 DU. THIR data is unavailable after November 1984, so we extend the CCP method by using a reflectivity threshold of 90% to identify high-altitude clouds and remove the influence of high-reflectivity-but-low-altitude clouds with a lowpass frequency filter. We correct ozone retrieval errors associated with clouds, and ozone retrieval errors due to sun glint and aerosols. Comparing CCP results with Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes (SHADOZ) tropospheric ozone indicates that CCP tropospheric ozone and ozonesonde measurements are highly consistent. The most significant difference between CCP and ozonesonde tropospheric ozone can be explained by the low Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) retrieval efficiency of ozone in the lower troposphere.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoria F. Sofieva ◽  
Risto Hänninen ◽  
Mikhail Sofiev ◽  
Monika Szelag ◽  
Hei Shing Lee ◽  
...  

Abstract. The satellite measurements in nadir and limb viewing geometry provide a complementary view of the atmosphere. An effective combination of the limb and nadir measurements can provide a new information about atmospheric composition. In this work, we present tropospheric ozone column datasets that have been created using combination of total ozone column from OMI and TROPOMI with stratospheric ozone column dataset from several available limb-viewing instruments (MLS, OSIRIS, MIPAS, SCIAMACHY, OMPS-LP, GOMOS). We have developed further the methodological aspects of assessment of tropospheric ozone using the residual method using simulations with the chemistry-transport model SILAM. It has been shown that the accurate assessment of ozone in the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere (UTLS) is of high importance for detecting the ground-level ozone patterns. The stratospheric ozone column is derived from a combination of ozone profiles from several satellite instruments in limb-viewing geometry. We developed a method for the data homogenization, which includes the removal of biases and a-posteriori estimation (validation) of random uncertainties, thus making the data from different instruments compatible with each other. The high horizontal and vertical resolution dataset of ozone profiles is created via interpolation of the limb profiles from each day to 1° × 1° horizonal grid. A new kriging-type interpolation method, which takes into account data uncertainties and the information about natural ozone variations from the SILAM-adjusted ozone field, has been developed. To mitigate the limited accuracy and coverage of the limb profile data in the UTLS, a smooth transition to the model data is applied below the tropopause. This allows estimation of stratospheric ozone column with full coverage of the UTLS. The derived ozone profiles are in very good agreement with collocated ozonesonde measurements. The residual method was successfully applied to OMI and TROPOMI clear-sky total ozone data in combination with the stratospheric ozone column from the high-resolution limb profile dataset. The resulting tropospheric ozone column is in very good agreement with other satellite data. The global distributions of tropospheric ozone exhibit enhancements associated with the regions of high tropospheric ozone production. The main created datasets are (i) monthly 1° × 1° global tropospheric ozone column dataset using OMI and limb instruments, (ii) monthly 1° × 1° global tropospheric ozone column dataset using TROPOMI and limb instruments and (iii) daily 1° × 1° interpolated stratospheric ozone column from limb instruments. Other datasets, which are created as an intermediate step of creating the tropospheric ozone column data, are: (i) daily 1° × 1° clear sky and total ozone column from OMI and TROPOMI (ii) Daily 1° × 1° homogenized and interpolated dataset of ozone profiles and (iii) daily 1° × 1° dataset of ozone profiles from SILAM simulations with adjustment to satellite data. These datasets can be used in various studies related to ozone distributions, variability and trends, both in the troposphere and the stratosphere.


2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 20887-20920
Author(s):  
J. Kar ◽  
M. N. Deeter ◽  
J. Fishman ◽  
Z. Liu ◽  
A. Omar ◽  
...  

Abstract. The Bihar pollution pool is a large wintertime increase in pollutants over the eastern parts of the Indo Gangetic basin. We use improved carbon monoxide (CO) retrievals from the recent Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) version 4 data along with the aerosol data from the latest version 3 of the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) lidar instrument and the tropospheric ozone residual products from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)/Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet (SBUV) and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)/Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) database to characterize this pollution pool. The feature is seen primarily in the lower troposphere from about November to February with strong concomitant increase in CO, aerosol optical depth and tropospheric ozone columns. The height resolved aerosol data from CALIPSO confirm the trapping of the pollution pool at the lowest altitudes. The observations indicate that MOPITT can capture this low altitude phenomenon even in winter conditions as indicated by the averaging kernels.


2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 6255-6271 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Boynard ◽  
C. Clerbaux ◽  
P.-F. Coheur ◽  
D. Hurtmans ◽  
S. Turquety ◽  
...  

Abstract. In this paper, we present measurements of total and tropospheric ozone, retrieved from infrared radiance spectra recorded by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), which was launched on board the MetOp-A European satellite in October 2006. We compare IASI total ozone columns to Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) observations and ground-based measurements from the Dobson and Brewer network for one full year of observations (2008). The IASI total ozone columns are shown to be in good agreement with both GOME-2 and ground-based data, with correlation coefficients of about 0.9 and 0.85, respectively. On average, IASI ozone retrievals exhibit a positive bias of about 9 DU (3.3%) compared to both GOME-2 and ground-based measurements. In addition to total ozone columns, the good spectral resolution of IASI enables the retrieval of tropospheric ozone concentrations. Comparisons of IASI tropospheric columns to 490 collocated ozone soundings available from several stations around the globe have been performed for the period of June 2007–August 2008. IASI tropospheric ozone columns compare well with sonde observations, with correlation coefficients of 0.95 and 0.77 for the [surface–6 km] and [surface–12 km] partial columns, respectively. IASI retrievals tend to overestimate the tropospheric ozone columns in comparison with ozonesonde measurements. Positive average biases of 0.15 DU (1.2%) and 3 DU (11%) are found for the [surface–6 km] and for the [surface–12 km] partial columns respectively.


1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Heath ◽  
A. J. Krueger ◽  
H. A. Roeder ◽  
B. D. Henderson

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Ziemke ◽  
Natalya Kramarova ◽  
Dave Haffner ◽  
Pawan Bhartia

<p>The NASA TOMS V9 (TOMS-V9) total ozone retrieval algorithm is tested<br>for sensitvity to boundary-layer ozone and suitability to make daily<br>maps of tropospheric ozone residual (TOR).  Daily maps of TOR are<br>derived by differencing co-located MERRA-2 assimilated MLS<br>stratospheric column ozone (SCO) from total column ozone from the Aura<br>Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI).  The TOMS-V9 algorithm uses a few<br>discrete channels with an order of magnitude range in ozone<br>senstivity. We compare the TOR results from TOMS-V9 with results from<br>several hyper-spectral total ozone retrievals: GODFIT v4 (BIRA-IASB),<br>OMI-DOAS (KNMI), and total ozone from the SAO PROFOZ algorithm. We<br>compare all satellite-retrieved TOR with TOR derived from ozonesondes,<br>lidar, and the Goddard Modeling Initiative (GMI) model simulation.</p><p> </p><p> </p>


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