Abstract
Tropospheric ozone is a photochemically produced secondary pollutant and a main component of summer smog. Measurements from the space borne spectrometer SCIAMACHY are well suited to investigate sources and transport mechanisms of tropospheric ozone in a global view. Exploiting alternating observations in limb and nadir modes, the Limb-Nadir Matching technique (LNM) is used to retrieve global distributions of tropospheric ozone for the entire duration of the SCIAMACHY mission (Aug. 2002–Apr. 2012). The LNM technique is rather unique since SCIAMACHY observes the same air mass within 7 min first in the limb and then in the nadir viewing modes. As 90 % of atmospheric ozone is located in the stratosphere, the LNM technique applied to satellite measurements requires very high accuracy of the input limb and nadir data. Accurate ozone data bases are not only benefitting LNM tropospheric ozone retrieval, but also requirements for ozone trends study as well as the establishment of a long-term essential climate variable (ecv) data record. This study contributes to the improvement of the quality of SCIAMACHY limb stratospheric ozone profiles retrieved over the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, hence improving the accuracy of the tropospheric ozone retrieval. Furthermore we provide comparisons of partial stratospheric ozone columns (from 15 to 30 km, referred to as SPO) resulting from SCIAMACHY limb measurements with ozone sonde data.
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We thank WOUDC (http://woudc.org) for providing ozone sonde station data. JJ also wants to thank CSC (China Scholarship Council) and ESSReS (Earth System Science Research School) for supporting during the project study. This work has been funded in parts by the German Aerospace DLR project SADOS (FKZ 50EE1105) and by the University and State of Bremen.
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Jia, J., Ladstätter-Weißenmayer , A., Rozanov, A., Burrows, J.P. (2015). Towards a Better Tropospheric Ozone Data Product from SCIAMACHY: Improvements in High Latitude Stratospheric Ozone. In: Lohmann, G., Meggers, H., Unnithan, V., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Notholt, J., Bracher, A. (eds) Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13865-7_5
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