Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net 1867-8610 2 1 2009 10.5194/amtd-2-37-2009 http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/37/2009/ http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/37/2009/amtd-2-37-2009.html http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/37/2009/amtd-2-37-2009.pdf 37 86 2009-01-12 Intercomparison of stratospheric ozone and temperature profiles during the October 2005 Hohenpeissenberg Ozone Profiling Experiment (HOPE) W. Steinbrecht wolfgang.steinbrecht@dwd.de T. J. McGee L. W. Twigg H. Claude F. Schönenborn G. K. Sumnicht D. Silbert Meteorologisches Observatorium, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA Thirteen clear nights in October 2005 allowed successful intercomparison of the stationary lidar operated since 1987 by the German Weather Service (DWD) at Hohenpeissenberg (47.8° N, 11.0° E) with the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) travelling standard lidar operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Both lidars provide ozone profiles in the stratosphere, and temperature profiles in the strato- and mesosphere. Additional ozone profiles came from on-site Brewer/Mast ozonesondes, additional temperature profiles from Vaisala RS92 radiosondes launched at Munich (65 km north-east), and from operational analyses by the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The intercomparison confirmed a low bias for ozone from the DWD lidar in the 33 to 43 km region, by up to 10%. This bias is caused by the DWD ozone algorithm. It will be removed in a future version. Between 20 and 33 km, agreement between both lidars, and ozonesondes below 30 km, is good with ozone differences less than 3 to 5%. Results are consistent with previous comparisons of the DWD lidar with SAGE, GOMOS and other satellite instruments. The intercomparison did uncover a 290 m upward shift of the DWD lidar data. When this shift is removed, agreement with ozone from the NASA lidar improves below 20 km, with remaining differences usually less than 5%, and not statistically significant. Precision (repeatability) for the lidar ozone data is better than 5% between 20 and 40 km altitude, dropping to 10% near 45 km, and 50% near 50 km. Temperature from the DWD lidar has a 1 to 2 K cold bias from 30 to 65 km against the NASA lidar, and a 2 to 4 K cold bias against radiosondes and NCEP. This is consistent with previous intercomparisons against NCEP or radiosondes. The cold bias against the NASA lidar disappears when the DWD lidar data are corrected for the afore-mentioned 290 m range error, and more appropriate values for the Earth's gravity acceleration are used. Temperature precision (repeatability) for the DWD lidar is better than 2 K between 30 and 50 km , decreasing to 10 K near 70 km. It is over-estimated by the current DWD algorithm, and should be reduced by a factor of 2.2 (e.g. from 22 K to 10 K near 70 km). Temperature and ozone variations are tracked well by both lidars, by ozone- and radiosondes, and by NCEP analyses. Correlations exceed 0.8 to 0.9 at most stratospheric levels. They decrease at levels above 40 km, especially for ozone or NCEP temperature. The ozone and temperature bias of the DWD lidar does not appear to have changed over the years. Long-term records of ozone and temperature from the DWD lidar should be consistent. Nevertheless, the HOPE intercomparison was instrumental in uncovering several long-standing errors. 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