Geophysical validation of temperature retrieved by the ESA processor from MIPAS/ENVISAT atmospheric limb-emission measurements (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Ridolfi M., U. Blum, B. Carli, V. Catoire, S. Ceccherini, H. Claude, C. De Clercq, K. H. Fricke, F. Friedl-Vallon, M. Iarlori, P. Keckhut, B. Kerridge, J.-C. Lambert, Y. J. Meijer, L. Mona, H. Oelhaf, G. Pappalardo, M. Pirre, V. Rizi, C. Robert, D. Swa (2007)
    Geophysical validation of temperature retrieved by the ESA processor from MIPAS/ENVISAT atmospheric limb-emission measurements
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  • Ridolfi M., U. Blum, B. Carli, V. Catoire, S. Ceccherini, H. Claude, C. De Clercq, K. H. Fricke, F. Friedl-Vallon, M. Iarlori, P. Keckhut, B. Kerridge, J.-C. Lambert, Y. J. Meijer, L. Mona, H. Oelhaf, G. Pappalardo, M. Pirre, V. Rizi, C. Robert, D. Swa (literal)
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  • M. Ridolfi1, U. Blum2, B. Carli3, V. Catoire4, S. Ceccherini3, H. Claude5, C. De Clercq6, K. H. Fricke7, F. Friedl-Vallon8, M. Iarlori9, P. Keckhut10, B. Kerridge11, J.-C. Lambert6, Y. J. Meijer12, L. Mona13, H. Oelhaf8, G. Pappalardo13, M. Pirre4, V. Rizi9, C. Robert4, D. Swart12, T. von Clarmann8, A. Waterfall11, and G. Wetzel8 1 Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica e Inorganica, Università di Bologna, Italy 2 Fraunhofer-Institut fur Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen, Euskirchen, Germany 3 Istituto di Fisica Applicata \"Nello Carrara\", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy 4 Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement, CNRS – Université d'Orleans, Orleans, France 5 DWD, Observatory Hohenpeissenberg, Germany 6 Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgique 7 Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Bonn, Bonn, Germany 8 Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, IMK, Germany 9 CETEMPS – Dipartimento di Fisica, Università de L'Aquila, L'aquila, Italy 10 Service d'Aeronomie, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/UVSQ, Verrieres-Le-Buisson, France 11 Earth Observation and Atmospheric Science, Space Science and Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK 12 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM – LVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 13 Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy (literal)
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  • Geophysical validation of temperature retrieved by the ESA processor from MIPAS/ENVISAT atmospheric limb-emission measurements (literal)
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  • The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) has been operating since March 2002 onboard of the ENVIronmental SATellite of the European Space Agency (ESA). The high resolution (0.035 cm-1 full width half maximum, unapodized) limb-emission measurements acquired by MIPAS in the first two years of operation have very good geographical and temporal coverage and have been re-processed by ESA with the most recent versions (4.61 and 4.62) of the inversion algorithms. The products of this processing chain are pressures at the tangent points and geolocated profiles of temperature and of the volume mixing ratios of six key atmospheric constituents: H2O, O3, HNO3, CH4, N2O and NO2. As for all the measurements made with innovative instruments and techniques, this data set requires a thorough validation. In this paper we present a geophysical validation of the temperature profiles derived from MIPAS measurements by the ESA retrieval algorithm. The validation is carried-out by comparing MIPAS temperature with correlative measurements made by radiosondes, lidars, in-situ and remote sensors operated either from the ground or stratospheric balloons. The results of the intercomparison indicate that the bias of the MIPAS profiles is generally smaller than 1 or 2 K depending on altitude. Furthermore we find that, especially at the edges of the altitude range covered by the MIPAS scan, the random error estimated from the intercomparison is larger (typically by a factor of two to three) than the corresponding estimate derived on the basis of error propagation. In this work we also characterize the discrepancies between MIPAS temperature and the temperature fields resulting from the analyses of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The bias and the standard deviation of these discrepancies are consistent with those obtained when comparing MIPAS to correlative measurements; however, in this case the detected bias has a peculiar behavior as a function of altitude. This behavior is very similar to that observed in previous studies and is suspected to be due to vertical oscillations in the ECMWF temperature. The current understanding is that, at least in the upper stratosphere (above 10 hPa), these oscillations are caused by a discrepancy between model biases and biases of assimilated radiances from primarily nadir sounders. (literal)
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