Retrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation

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dc.contributor.authorFu, Dejian
dc.contributor.authorKulawik, Susan S.
dc.contributor.authorMiyazaki, Kazuyuki
dc.contributor.authorBowman, Kevin W.
dc.contributor.authorWorden, John R.
dc.contributor.authorEldering, Annmarie
dc.contributor.authorLivesey, Nathaniel J.
dc.contributor.authorTeixeira, Joao
dc.contributor.authorIrion, Fredrick W.
dc.contributor.authorHerman, Robert L.
dc.contributor.authorOsterman, Gregory B.
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xiong
dc.contributor.authorLevelt, Pieternel F.
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Anne M.
dc.contributor.authorLuo, Ming
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-20T17:31:52Z
dc.date.available2024-06-20T17:31:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-12
dc.description.abstractThe Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the A-Train Aura satellite was designed to profile tropospheric ozone and its precursors, taking measurements from 2004 to 2018. Starting in 2008, TES global sampling of tropospheric ozone was gradually reduced in latitude, with global coverage stopping in 2011. To extend the record of TES, this work presents a multispectral approach that will provide O₃ data products with vertical resolution and measurement error similar to TES by combining the single-footprint thermal infrared (TIR) hyperspectral radiances from the Aqua Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and the ultraviolet (UV) channels from the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). The joint AIRS+OMI O₃ retrievals are processed through the MUlti-SpEctra, MUlti-SpEcies, MUlti-SEnsors (MUSES) retrieval algorithm. Comparisons of collocated joint AIRS+OMI and TES to ozonesonde measurements show that both systems have similar errors, with mean and standard deviation of the differences well within the estimated measurement error. AIRS+OMI and TES have slightly different biases (within 5 parts per billion) vs. the sondes. Both AIRS and OMI have wide swath widths (∼1650 km for AIRS; ∼2600 km for OMI) across satellite ground tracks. Consequently, the joint AIRS+OMI measurements have the potential to maintain TES vertical sensitivity while increasing coverage by 2 orders of magnitude, thus providing an unprecedented new data set with which to quantify the evolution of tropospheric ozone.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors thank Barry L. Lefer, Brendan M. Fisher, Bradley R. Pierce, Brian Drouin, Bryan N. Duncan, Chris D. Barnet, David Crisp, Eric Fetzer, Evan Fishbein, Gordon J. Labow, Helen M. Worden, Irina V. Strickland, Jassim A. Al-saadi, James H. Crawford, James F. Gleason, Glen Jaross, Jessica L. Neu, Joao Teixeira, Joanna Joiner, Karen Cady-Pereira, Kelly Chance, Krzysztof Wargan, Kuai Le, Lawrence E. Flynn, Larrabee L. Strow, Louisa Emmons, Michael R. Gunson, Monika Kopacz, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Pepijn Veefkind, Pawan K. Bhartia, Richard R. Lay, Richard S. Eckman, Robert J. D. Spurr, Seftor Colin, Scott E. Gluck, Thomas Pagano, Stanley P. Sander, Vivienne H. Payne, and Shanshan Yu for many helpful discussions. We are grateful to all members of the TES, AIRS, CrIS, OMI, and OMPS instrument, algorithm, validation, and science teams for their work on supporting the TES, AIRS, CrIS, OMI, and OMPS missions. We thank Erin Wong and Eugene Y. Chu at JPL for their help on joint AIRS+OMI data production and releasing ozone data files to the NASA AVDC website. We thank Pranjit Saha and Vance R. Haemmerle for their help on the comparisons with the WOUDC ozone data. Support from the NASA ROSES-2013 Atmospheric Composition: Aura Science Team program (grant number: NNN13D455T) is gratefully acknowledged. Part of the research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Kazuyuki Miyazaki acknowledges support from JSPS KAKENHI grant numbers 15K05296, 26220101, 26287117, and 18H01285. We thank the editor, Mark Weber, for his excellent work.
dc.description.urihttps://amt.copernicus.org/articles/11/5587/2018/
dc.format.extent19 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2y3it-hppo
dc.identifier.citationFu, Dejian, Susan S. Kulawik, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Kevin W. Bowman, John R. Worden, Annmarie Eldering, Nathaniel J. Livesey, et al. “Retrievals of Tropospheric Ozone Profiles from the Synergism of AIRS and OMI: Methodology and Validation.” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11, no. 10 (October 12, 2018): 5587–5605. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5587-2018.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5587-2018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/34712
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherEGU
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC GESTAR II
dc.rightsThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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dc.titleRetrievals of tropospheric ozone profiles from the synergism of AIRS and OMI: methodology and validation
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