Title :
Profiles of stratospheric trace gases retrieved from ground-based millimeter wave radiometry at Ny-Ålesund 1997 and Kiruna 1998
Author :
Kopp, G. ; Berg, H. ; Hochschild, G. ; Ruhnke, R.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Meteorol. & Climate Res., Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany
Abstract :
During two subsequent polar winter measurement campaigns the ground-based mm wave radiometer MIRA2 has been operated from 12 March to 31 March 1997 at Ny-Ålesund (78.9°N, 11.9°E), Svalbard, and from 26 January to 3 April 1998 at Kiruna (67.8°N, 20.4°E), Sweden. From the measurements at Ny-Ålesund a nearly continuous time series of 100 ClO vmr profiles could be retrieved and compared to calculations of the Karlsruhe Simulation Model of the Middle Atmosphere (KASIMA). During the measurement campaign at Kiruna 1998 the weather conditions were not always favorable for ClO measurements. During the periods of bad weather conditions the radiometer was tuned for the detection of ozone resulting in a time series starting from 26 January to 31 March, or for the detection of N2O
Keywords :
air pollution; air pollution measurement; atmospheric composition; atmospheric techniques; chlorine compounds; nitrogen compounds; ozone; radiometry; remote sensing; stratosphere; 270 to 280 GHz; AD 1997; AD 1998; ClO; EHF; KASIMA; Karlsruhe Simulation Model of the Middle Atmosphere; Kiruna; N2O; Ny-Alesund; O3; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Sweden; air pollution; atmosphere; chemical composition; ground-based; measurement technique; millimeter wave radiometry; millimetre wave radiometry; mm wave; polar winter; remote sensing; stratosphere; trace gas; vertical profile; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Chemistry; Equations; Gases; Kernel; Predictive models; Radiometry; Terrestrial atmosphere; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.775106
