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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2645-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2645-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
25 Jul 2017
Research article |
| 25 Jul 2017
Validation of the CrIS fast physical NH3 retrieval with ground-based FTIR
Cluster Earth and Climate, Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Mark W. Shephard
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mathias Palm
Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Karen Cady-Pereira
Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Shannon Capps
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
now at: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Erik Lutsch
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kim Strong
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
James W. Hannigan
NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ivan Ortega
NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Geoffrey C. Toon
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Wolfgang Stremme
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Michel Grutter
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Nicholas Jones
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Dan Smale
National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, Lauder, New Zealand
Jacob Siemons
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kevin Hrpcek
University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Denis Tremblay
Science Data Processing, Inc., Laurel, MD, USA
Martijn Schaap
TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Department of Air Quality and Climate, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Justus Notholt
Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Jan Willem Erisman
Cluster Earth and Climate, Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Louis Bolk Institute, Driebergen, the Netherlands
Data sets
Retrieval of ammonia from ground-based FTIR solar spectra E. Dammers, C. Vigouroux, M. Palm, E. Mahieu, T. Warneke, D. Smale, B. Langerock, B. Franco, M. Van Damme, M. Schaap, J. Notholt, and J. W. Erisman https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-12789-2015
Worldwide spatiotemporal atmospheric ammonia (NH3) columns variability revealed by satellite M. Van Damme, M., J. W. Erisman, L. Clarisse, E. Dammers, S. Whitburn, C. Clerbaux, A. J. Dolman, and P.-F. Coheur https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL065496
Short summary
Presented here is the validation of the CrIS fast physical retrieval (CFPR) NH3 column and profile measurements using ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) observations. The overall FTIR and CrIS total columns have a positive correlation of r = 0.77 (N = 218) with very little bias (a slope of 1.02). Furthermore, we find that CrIS and FTIR profile comparison differences are mostly within the range of the estimated retrieval uncertainties, with differences in the range of ~ 20 to 40 %.
Presented here is the validation of the CrIS fast physical retrieval (CFPR) NH3 column and...
