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- Title
A Joint data record of tropospheric ozone from Aura-TES and MetOp-IASI.
- Authors
Oetjen, H.; Payne, V. H.; Neu, J. L.; Kulawik, S. S.; Edwards, D. P.; Eldering, A.; Worden, H. M.; Worden, J. R.
- Abstract
The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on Aura and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on MetOp-A together provide a time series of ten years of free-tropospheric ozone with an overlap of three years. We characterise the differences between TES and IASI ozone measurements and find that IASI's coarser vertical sensitivity leads to a small (< 5 ppb) low bias relative to TES for the free troposphere. The TES-IASI differences are not dependent on season or any other factor and hence the measurements from the two instruments can be merged, after correcting for the off-set, in order to study decadal-scale changes in tropospheric ozone. We calculate time series of regional monthly mean ozone in the free troposphere over Eastern Asia, the Western United States (US), and Europe, carefully accounting for differences in spatial sampling between the instruments. We show that free-tropospheric ozone over Europe and the Western US has remained relatively constant over the past decade, but that, contrary to expectations, ozone over Asia in recent years does not continue the rapid rate of increase observed from 2004-2010.
- Subjects
TROPOSPHERE; OZONE layer; ATMOSPHERIC chemistry; ATMOSPHERIC acoustics; TIME series analysis
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 21, p31025
- ISSN
1680-7367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acpd-15-31025-2015