Satellite measurements of atmospheric ozone profiles, including tropospheric ozone, from ultraviolet/visible measurements in the nadir geometry: a potential method to retrieve tropospheric ozone

Chance, K.; Burrows, J. P.; Perner, D.; Schneider, Werner

doi:10.1016/s0022-4073(96)00157-4

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“…These instruments measure at 12 discrete 1 nm wide wavelength bands in the 250-340 nm range, providing vertical information from the ozone density peak (20-25 km) to ∼50 km plus the ozone column down to the surface/cloud altitude (Bhartia et al, 1996). Chance et al (1991Chance et al ( , 1997 showed that it may be possible to extend the ozone profile information to lower altitudes, including the troposphere, by using high spectral resolution (<0.5 nm) hyperspectral (contiguous in wavelength) data from instruments like the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME). Over the years, several groups, have developed physically based retrieval algorithms to retrieve ozone profiles from GOME radiances (Munro et al, 1998;Hoogen et al, 1999;Hasekamp and Landgraf, 2001;van der A et al, 2002;Liu et al, 2005).…”

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Ozone profile retrievals from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

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Abstract. Ozone profiles from the surface to about 60 km are retrieved from Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ultraviolet radiances using the optimal estimation technique. OMI provides daily ozone profiles for the entire sunlit portion of the earth at a horizontal resolution of 13 km×48 km for the nadir position. The retrieved profiles have sufficient accuracy in the troposphere to see ozone perturbations caused by convection, biomass burning and anthropogenic pollution, and to track their spatiotemporal transport. However, to achieve such accuracy it has been necessary to calibrate OMI radiances carefully (using two days of Aura/Microwave Limb Sounder data taken in the tropics). The retrieved profiles contain ∼6-7 degrees of freedom for signal, with 5-7 in the stratosphere and 0-1.5 in the troposphere. Vertical resolution varies from 7-11 km in the stratosphere to 10-14 km in the troposphere. Retrieval precisions range from 1% in the middle stratosphere to 10% in the lower stratosphere and troposphere. Solution errors (i.e., root sum square of precisions and smoothing errors) vary from 1-6% in the middle stratosphere to 6-35% in the troposphere, and are dominated by smoothing errors. Total, stratospheric, and tropospheric ozone columns can be retrieved with solution errors typically in the few Dobson unit range at solar zenith angles less than 80 • .

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Ozone profile retrievals from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

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“…The UV measurements were carried out from ground (Götz et al, 1934;McDermid et al, 2002;Petropavlovskikh et al, 2005;Tzortziou et al, 2008), aircraft (Browell et al, 1983), balloon (Weidner et al, 2005), and spaceborne platforms (nadir-viewing measurements by Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer (SBUV) (Bhartia et al, 1996), Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) (Munro et al, 1998;Hoogen et al, 1999;Liu et al, 2005Liu et al, , 2006, GOME-2 (van Peet et al, 2009;Cai et al, 2012), Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) (Liu et al, 2010a;Kroon et al, 2011), and limbscattering measurements by Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE) (McPeters et al, 2000), Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System (OSIRIS) (von Savigny et al, 2003), and SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) (Eichman et al, 2004;Sellitto et al, 2012a,b)). The TIR measurements were performed from ground (Pougatchev et al, 1995;Hamdouni et al, 1997), aircraft (Toon et al, 1989;Blom et al, 1995), balloon (Clarmann et al, 1993;Toon et al, 2002), and spaceborne platforms (Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy (ATMOS) (Gunson et al, 1990); Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES) (Bailey et al, 1996); HALogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) (Brühl et al, 1996); CRyogenic Infrared Spectrometers & Telescopes for the Atmosphere (CRISTA) (Riese et al, 1999); Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Boone et al, 2005), and Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) (Beer et al, 2001;Bowman et al, 2006); Infrared Atmospheri...…”

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“…In the UV, the backscattered radiance spectra measured from space contain information on the vertical distribution of ozone because of the dependency of ozone absorption on wavelength and attenuation of UV through Rayleigh scattering (Chance et al, 1997). The ozone υ 3 band around 9.6 µm is useful for profiling atmospheric ozone distributions because the rotation-vibration resolved spectral lines of the υ 3 band depend on pressure and temperature.…”

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Characterization of ozone profiles derived from Aura TES and OMI radiances

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Liu

et al. 2013

Atmos. Chem. Phys.

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We present satellite based ozone profile estimates derived by combining radiances measured at thermal infrared (TIR) wavelengths from the Aura Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) and ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths measured by the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). The advantage of using these combined wavelengths and instruments for sounding ozone over either instrument alone is improved sensitivity near the surface as well as the capability to consistently resolve the lower troposphere, upper troposphere, and lower stratosphere for scenes with varying geophysical states. For example, the vertical resolution of ozone estimates from either TES or OMI varies strongly by surface albedo and temperature. Typically, TES provides 1.6 degrees of freedom for signal (DOFS) and OMI provides less than 1 DOFS in the troposphere. The combination provides 2 DOFS in the troposphere with approximately 0.4 DOFS for near surface ozone (surface to 700 hPa). We evaluated these new ozone profile estimates with ozonesonde measurements and found that calculated errors for the joint TES and OMI ozone profile estimates are in reasonable agreement with actual errors as derived by the root-mean-square (RMS) difference between the ozonesondes and the joint TES/OMI ozone estimates. We also used a common a priori profile in the retrievals in order to evaluate the capability of different retrieval approaches on capturing near-surface ozone variability. We found that the vertical resolution of the joint TES/OMI ozone profile estimates shows significant improvements on quantifying variations in near-surface ozone with RMS differences of 49.9% and correlation coefficient of R = 0.58 for the TES/OMI near-surface estimates as compared to 67.2% RMS difference and R = 0.33 for TES and 115.8% RMS difference and R = 0.09 for OMI. This comparison removes the impacts of using the climatological a priori in the retrievals. However, it results in artificially large sonde/retrieval differences. The TES/OMI ozone profiles from the production code of joint retrievals will use climatological a priori and therefore will have more realistic ozone estimates than those from using a common a priori volume mixing ratio profile

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“…However, the separation of the relatively small tropospheric component (~10%) from the total column ozone has been difficult. Liu et al (2005Liu et al ( , 2006 derived TCO directly from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) ultraviolet measurements, adapting the spectroscopic technique proposed for GOME and SCIAMACHY measurements (Chance et al 1997). Noguchi et al (2007) validated the GOME-O3 data set by comparing it with ozonesonde data in Japan.…”

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Spatiotemporal Variation in Tropospheric Column Ozone over East Asia Observed by GOME and Ozonesondes

Hayashida

Urita

Noguchi

et al. 2008

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We analyzed tropospheric column ozone (TCO) observed by the GOME-1 (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment; European Space Agency, 1995) and ozonesondes to determine the spatiotemporal variation in TCO over East Asia from 1996 to 2003. An enhanced TCO belt (E-TCO belt) was observed at approximately 35°N throughout the year. The E-TCO belt moved northward from winter to summer and southward from summer to winter, strongly suggesting connection with the seasonal variation of meteorological conditions. The large enhancement of TCO found over central China in summer suggests that there is significant outflow of ozone from that region. This study presents the first satellite-derived comprehensive picture of the TCO spatiotemporal variation over East Asia, which has not been obtained from limited ground-based measurements.

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Satellite measurements of atmospheric ozone profiles, including tropospheric ozone, from ultraviolet/visible measurements in the nadir geometry: a potential method to retrieve tropospheric ozone

Cited by 104 publications

References 17 publications

Ozone profile retrievals from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

Ozone profile retrievals from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

Characterization of ozone profiles derived from Aura TES and OMI radiances

Spatiotemporal Variation in Tropospheric Column Ozone over East Asia Observed by GOME and Ozonesondes

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