SPARC Report No. 8
SPARC Report No. 8 (2017)
The SPARC Data Initiative: Assessment of stratospheric trace gas and aerosol climatologies from satellite limb sounders
Prepared by the SPARC Data Initiative Team, edited by M. I. Hegglin and S. Tegtmeier.
WCRP-5/2017
SPARC Report No. 8
Citation:
SPARC, 2017: The SPARC Data Initiative: Assessment of stratospheric trace gas and aerosol climatologies from satellite limb sounders. By M. I. Hegglin and S. Tegtmeier (eds.), SPARC Report No. 8, WCRP-5/2017, available at www.aparc-climate.org/publications/
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Satellite instruments
2.1 Satellite measurement techniques
2.2 Instrument and retrieval descriptions
Chapter 3: Climatology framework
3.1 Climatology construction
3.2 Climatology uncertainties
3.3 Climatology diagnostics
Chapter 4 (Part 4.1-4.10)/(Part 4.11-4.27 ): Climatology evaluations
4.1 Ozone – O3
4.2 Water vapour – H2O
4.3 Methane – CH4
4.4 Nitrous oxide – N2O
4.5 Trichlorofluoromethane – CCl3F (CFC-11)
4.6 Dichlorodifluoromethane – CCl2F2 (CFC-12)
4.7 Carbon monoxide – CO
4.8 Hydrogen fluoride – HF
4.9 Sulfur hexafluoride – SF6
4.10 Nitrogen monoxide – NO
4.11 Nitrogen dioxide – NO2
4.12 Nitrogen oxides – NOx
4.13 Nitric acid – HNO3
4.14 Peroxynitric acid – HNO4
4.15 Dinitrogen pentoxide – N2O5
4.16 Chlorine nitrate – ClONO2
4.17 Total reactive nitrogen – NOy
4.18 Hydrogen chloride – HCl
4.19 Chlorine monoxide – ClO
4.20 Hypochlorous acid – HOCl
4.21 Bromine oxide – BrO
4.22 Hydroxyl radical – OH
4.23 Hydroperoxy radical – HO2
4.24 Formaldehyde – CH2O
4.25 Acetonitrile – CH3CN
4.26 Aerosol
4.27 Upper troposphere / lower stratosphere (UTLS) ozone evaluations based on TES averaging kernels
Chapter 5: Implications of results
5.1 Implications for model-measurement intercomparison
5.2 Implications for merging activities
5.3 Implications for future planning of satellite limb-sounders
Supplementary online material:
Appendix A3 (2.1 MB)
Appendix A4 (22.8 MB)
Appendix A5 (0.2 MB)