A41O:
Satellite Limb Sounding of the Earth’s Atmosphere I

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Session ID#: 33328

Session Description:
A number of Earth-orbiting satellite instruments are making atmospheric measurements using limb-sounding techniques. These include occultation, scattering, emission, and satellite-to-satellite attenuation. Solar occultation like that used by SAGE II has been a very successful approach to producing high vertical resolution species profiles, but with limited global coverage. Limb scattering, like that used by OMPS and SAGE III-ISS, expands the global coverage producing species’ profiles on the sun side of the orbit. Limb emission instruments, like MLS and SABER, are capable of measuring atmospheric gases on a more global scale day and night. This session serves as a forum to demonstrate various applications of limb sounders, used alone or in concert with other techniques, to improve our understanding of current science issues, including trend studies, photochemistry applications, dynamics and transport, and aerosol and cloud characterizations. Papers are solicited on current and new limb sounding techniques, science results, and multiple instrument intercomparisons.
Primary Convener:  Michael Patrick McCormick, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  William John Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Richard Eckman, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  William John Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Richard Eckman, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William John Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0341 Middle atmosphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Synergy Between Occultation, Limb and Nadir Satellite Data to Study Atmospheric Ozone, Aerosols and Radiation (Invited) (243447)
Pawan K Bhartia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division- Atmospheres MC614, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Paul Loughman, Ctr Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Jerald R Ziemke, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Lanham, United States
Temporal evolution of chlorine and related species observed with Aura/MLS, Envisat/MIPAS, and ground-based FTIR at Syowa Station, Antarctica during late winter and spring in 2007 and 2011 (217261)
Hideaki Nakajima, NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, Isao Murata, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Yoshihiro Nagahama, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-city, Japan, Masanori Takeda, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Sendai, Japan and Nicholas B Jones, University of Wollongong, Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Status and Latest Results (220412)
Peter F Bernath, Old Dominion University, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, VA, United States, Chris D. Boone, University of Waterloo, Department of Chemistry, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Charles T McElroy, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
A new MesosphEO dataset of temperature profiles from 35 to 85 km using Rayleigh scattering at limb from GOMOS/ENVISAT daytime observations (267902)
Alain Hauchecorne, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, Laurent Blanot, ACRI-ST, Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France, Robin Wing Jr., LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, Robin Wing, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Optical and Rocket Soundings, Kühlungsborn, Germany, Philippe Keckhut, LATMOS/IPSL/CNRS/UVSQ, Guyancourt, France and Sergey M. Khaykin, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, LATMOS, Paris Cedex 05, France
OMPS Limb Profiler: Extending SAGE and CALIPSO Stratospheric Aerosol Records (243867)
Ghassan Taha, Morgan State University, NASA/code 614, Baltimore, MD, United States, Pawan K Bhartia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Zhong Chen, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Philippe Xu, Science Applications Int'l Corp., Beltsville, United States, Robert Paul Loughman, Ctr Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Glen R Jaross, Code 614, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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