TY  - JOUR
AU  - Woiwode, W.
AU  - Oelhaf, H.
AU  - Gulde, T.
AU  - Piesch, C.
AU  - Maucher, G.
AU  - Ebersold, A.
AU  - Keim, C.
AU  - Höpfner, M.
AU  - Khaykin, S.
AU  - Ravegnani, F.
AU  - Ulanovsky, A.E.
AU  - Volk, C.M.
AU  - Hösen, E.
AU  - Dörnbrack, A.
AU  - Ungermann, J.
AU  - Kalicinsky, C.
AU  - Orphal, J.
TI  - MIPAS-STR measurements in the Arctic UTLS in winter/spring 2010: Instrument characterization, retrieval and validation
JO  - Atmospheric measurement techniques
VL  - 5
SN  - 1867-1381
CY  - Katlenburg-Lindau
PB  - Copernicus
M1  - PreJuSER-22374
SP  - 1205 - 1228
PY  - 2012
N1  - We dedicate this paper to C. E. Blom, who greatly contributed to the success of MIPAS-STR onboard the M55 Geophyisca over many years. This work was supported by the EU under the grant number RECONCILE-226365-FP7-ENV-2008-1. We thank the RECONCILE coordination team, Myasishchev Design Bureau and Enviscope for making the RECONCILE field campaign a success. ECMWF data for the MIPAS-STR retrievals were obtained via NILU's NADIR database. We acknowledge support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Open Access Publishing Fund of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. W. Woiwode thanks A. Kleinert and G. Wetzel from IMK-ASF, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, for helpful discussions, and M. von Hobe from IEK-7, Research Centre Julich, as representative of the RECONCILE team for especially supporting young scientists.
AB  - The mid-infrared FTIR-limb-sounder Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding-STRatospheric aircraft (MIPAS-STR) was deployed onboard the research aircraft M55 Geophysica during the RECONCILE campaign (Reconciliation of Essential Process Parameters for an Enhanced Predictability of Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Loss and its Climate Interactions) in the Arctic winter/spring 2010. From the MIPAS-STR measurements, vertical profiles and 2-dimensional vertical cross-sections of temperature and trace gases are retrieved. Detailed mesoscale structures of polar vortex air, extra vortex air and vortex filaments are identified in the results at typical vertical resolutions of 1 to 2 km and typical horizontal sampling densities of 45 or 25 km, depending on the sampling programme. Results are shown for the RECONCILE flight 11 on 2 March 2010 and are validated with collocated in-situ measurements of temperature, O-3, CFC-11, CFC-12 and H2O. Exceptional agreement is found for the in-situ comparisons of temperature and O-3, with mean differences (vertical profile/along flight track) of 0.2/-0.2 K for temperature and -0.01/0.05 ppmv for O-3 and corresponding sample standard deviations of the mean differences of 0.7/0.6 K and 0.1/0.3 ppmv. The comparison of the retrieved vertical cross-sections of HNO3 from MIPAS-STR and the infrared limb-sounder Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-New Frontiers (CRISTA-NF) indicates a high degree of agreement. We discuss MIPAS-STR in its current configuration, the spectral and radiometric calibration of the measurements and the retrieval of atmospheric parameters from the spectra. The MIPAS-STR measurements are significantly affected by continuum-like contributions, which are attributed to background aerosol and broad spectral signatures from interfering trace gases, and are important for mid-infrared limb-sounding in the Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) region. Taking into consideration continuum-like effects, we present a scheme suitable for accurate retrievals of temperature and an extended set of trace gases, including the correction of a systematic line-of-sight offset.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000305837600002
DO  - DOI:10.5194/amt-5-1205-2012
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/22374
ER  -