Simultaneous ground-based observations of O-3, HCl, N2O, and CH4 over Toronto, Canada by three Fourier transform spectrometers with different resolutions

D. Wunch; J. R. Taylor; D. Fu; P. Bernath; J. R. Drummond; C. Midwinter; K. Strong; K. A. Walker

Simultaneous ground-based observations of O-3, HCl, N2O, and CH4 over Toronto, Canada by three Fourier transform spectrometers with different resolutions

D. Wunch, J. R. Taylor, D. Fu, P. Bernath, J. R. Drummond, C. Midwinter, K. Strong, K. A. Walker

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Abstract

An intercomparison of three Fourier transform spectrometers (FTSs) with significantly different resolutions is presented. The highest-resolution instrument has a maximum optical path difference of 250 cm, and the two lower-resolution instruments have maximum optical path differences of 50 cm and 25 cm. The results indicate that the two lower-resolution instruments can retrieve total column amounts of O-3, HCl, N2O and CH4 using the SFIT2 retrieval code with percent differences from the high-resolution instrument generally better than 4%. Total column amounts of the stratospheric species (O-3 and HCl) have larger differences than those of the tropospheric species (N2O and CH4). Instrument line shape (ILS) information is found to be of critical importance when retrieving total columns of stratospheric gases from the lower-resolution instruments. Including the ILS information in the retrievals significantly reduces the difference in total column amounts between the three instruments. The remaining errors for stratospheric species total column amounts can be attributed to the lower sensitivity of the lower-resolution FTSs to the stratosphere.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1275-1292
Number of pages	18
Journal	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Volume	7
Publication status	Published - 22 Feb 2007

Keywords

INFRARED MEASUREMENTS
FTIR MEASUREMENTS
LINE PARAMETERS
HITRAN

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