A43E-0336
Current Validation and New Developments for the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) Data Set
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Kaley A Walker1, Patrick Sheese2, Jiansheng Zou1, Chris D. Boone3 and Peter F Bernath4, (1)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)Old Dominion University, Gloucester, VA, United States
Abstract:
For over eleven years, the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), a Canadian scientific satellite also known as SCISAT-1, has been making remote sensing measurements of the Earth's atmosphere using solar occultation. The primary ACE instrument is a high-resolution (0.02 cm-1) Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) operating between 750 and 4400 cm-1. The ACE-FTS data set provides profiles of temperature, pressure, and volume mixing ratios of more than 30 atmospheric trace gas species, as well as 20 subsidiary isotopologues of the most abundant trace atmospheric constituents. This paper will describe current validation and intercomparison results for the ACE-FTS version 3.5 data set and outline developments planned for the next version to improve the utility of the data set for trend studies.
