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Research article
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08 Sep 2016
Research article |
| 08 Sep 2016
Recent divergences in stratospheric water vapor measurements by frost point hygrometers and the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
William G. Read
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California, USA
Holger Vömel
Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Henry B. Selkirk
Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Universities Space
Research Association, Columbia, Maryland, USA
Karen H. Rosenlof
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Sean M. Davis
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Emrys G. Hall
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Allen F. Jordan
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Samuel J. Oltmans
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Latest update: 18 Apr 2024
Short summary
This study compares stratospheric water vapor measurements by the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) and balloon-borne frost point hygrometers (FPs) at five sites that launch two different types of FPs. The results demonstrate that FP and MLS measurements have been diverging at statistically significant rates of 0.6 to 1.5 % per year since approximately 2010. Similarities in the divergences at different sites suggest a positive drift in MLS retrievals since approximately 2010.
This study compares stratospheric water vapor measurements by the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder...
