Ozone profiles in the high-latitude stratosphere and lower mesosphere measured by the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS)-II: comparison with other satellite sensors and ozonesondes

Sugita, T.; Nakajima, H.; Yokota, T.; Kanazawa, H.; Herber, A.; von der Gathen, P.; Konig-Langlo, G.; Sato, K.; Dorokhov, V.; Yushkov, V.A.; Murayama, Y.; Yamamori, M.; Godin-Beekman, S.; Goutail, F.; Roscoe, H.K.; 23 others, .. 2006 Ozone profiles in the high-latitude stratosphere and lower mesosphere measured by the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS)-II: comparison with other satellite sensors and ozonesondes. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111 (D11), D11S02. 15, pp. 10.1029/2005JD006439

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Abstract/Summary

A solar occultation sensor, the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS)-II, measured 5890 vertical profiles of ozone concentrations in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere and of other species from January to October 2003. The measurement latitude coverage was 54–71°N and 64–88°S, which is similar to the coverage of ILAS (November 1996 to June 1997). One purpose of the ILAS-II measurements was to continue such high-latitude measurements of ozone and its related chemical species in order to help accurately determine their trends. The present paper assesses the quality of ozone data in the version 1.4 retrieval algorithm, through comparisons with results obtained from comprehensive ozonesonde measurements and four satellite-borne solar occultation sensors. In the Northern Hemisphere (NH), the ILAS-II ozone data agree with the other data within ±10% (in terms of the absolute difference divided by its mean value) at altitudes between 11 and 40 km, with the median coincident ILAS-II profiles being systematically up to 10% higher below 20 km and up to 10% lower between 21 and 40 km after screening possible suspicious retrievals. Above 41 km, the negative bias between the NH ILAS-II ozone data and the other data increases with increasing altitude and reaches 30% at 61–65 km. In the Southern Hemisphere, the ILAS-II ozone data agree with the other data within ±10% in the altitude range of 11–60 km, with the median coincident profiles being on average up to 10% higher below 20 km and up to 10% lower above 20 km. Considering the accuracy of the other data used for this comparative study, the version 1.4 ozone data are suitably used for quantitative analyses in the high-latitude stratosphere in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and in the lower mesosphere in the Southern Hemisphere.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2005JD006439
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Long-Term Monitoring and Survey – Physical Sciences Division
ISSN:	0148-0227
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NORA Subject Terms:	Atmospheric Sciences
Date made live:	27 Jul 2007 13:34 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/133

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1029/2005JD006439

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Long-Term Monitoring and Survey – Physical Sciences Division

ISSN:

0148-0227

Format Availability:

Electronic, Print

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Full text not available from this repository