Por favor, use este identificador para citar o enlazar este ítem: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/6565
Optimal estimation of tropospheric H2O and δD with IASI/METOP [Discussion paper]
Título : Optimal estimation of tropospheric H2O and δD with IASI/METOP [Discussion paper]
Autor : Schneider, Matthias RESEARCHERID Hase, Frank
Palabras clave : Tropospheric H2O; Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer; Water isotopologues; Troposfera; Isotopólogos; Ciclo del agua
Fecha de publicación : 2011
Editor: European Geosciences Union
Citación : Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. 2011, 11, p. 16107–16146
Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-11-16107-2011
Resumen : We present optimal estimates of tropospheric H2O and δD derived from radiances measured by the instrument IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) flown on EUMETSAT's polar orbiter METOP. We document that the IASI spectra allow for retrieving H2O profiles between the surface and the upper troposphere as well as middle tropospheric δD values. A theoretical error estimation suggests a precision for H2O of better than 35% in the lower troposphere and of better than 15% in the middle and upper troposphere, respectively, whereby surface emissivity and atmospheric temperature uncertainties are the leading error sources. For the middle tropospheric δD values we estimate a precision of 15–20‰ with the measurement noise being the dominating error source. The accuracy of the IASI products is estimated to about 20–10% and 10‰ for lower to upper tropospheric H2O and middle tropospheric δD, respectively. It is limited by systematic uncertainties in the applied spectroscopic parameters and the a priori atmospheric temperature profiles. We compare our IASI products to a large number of near coincident radiosonde in-situ and ground-based FTS (Fourier Transform Spectrometer) remote sensing measurements. The bias and the scatter between the different H2O and δD data sets are consistent with the combined theoretical uncertainties of the involved measurement techniques.
Patrocinador: This study has been conducted in the framework of the project MUSICA which is funded by the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC Grant agreement number 256961.
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/6565
ISSN : 1680-7367
1680-7375
Colecciones: Artículos científicos 2010-2014


Ficheros en este ítem:
  Fichero Descripción Tamaño Formato  
acpd-11-16107-2011.pdf
1,8 MBAdobe PDFVista previa
Visualizar/Abrir
Mostrar el registro completo del ítem



Los ítems de Arcimis están protegidos por una Licencia Creative Commons, salvo que se indique lo contrario.

Repositorio Arcimis
Nota Legal Contacto y sugerencias