Initial retrievals and characterization of nitric acid from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer limb viewing mode
Abstract
Initial retrievals and characterization of nitric acid (HNO3) are presented using data from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) limb viewing mode taken on September 21, 2004 in the Pacific Ocean near New Guinea. The characterizations of HNO3 retrievals show that TES has sensitivity to HNO3 between 8 and 35 km with about 6 degrees of freedom. This characterization demonstrates that the TES HNO3 limb product has sufficient accuracy and precision to be useful for constraining local HNO3 production due to lightning, long-range pollution transport in the upper troposphere, and HNO3 chemistry in the lower stratosphere.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AGUFM.A41A0012K
- Keywords:
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- 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry