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Retrievals from GOMOS stellar occultation measurements using characterization of modeling errors
1Earth observation, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
2Organization of Russian Academy of Sciences A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia
3LATMOS, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin; CNRS/INSU, Verrières-le-Buisson, France
4Institut d'Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
5ACRI-ST, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss the development of the inversion algorithm for the GOMOS (Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Star) instrument on board the Envisat satellite. The proposed algorithm takes accurately into account the wavelength-dependent modeling errors, which are mainly due to the incomplete scintillation correction in the stratosphere. The special attention is paid to numerical efficiency of the algorithm. The developed method is tested on a large data set and its advantages are demonstrated. Its main advantage is a proper characterization of the uncertainties of the retrieved profiles of atmospheric constituents, which is of high importance for data assimilation, trend analyses and validation.
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Notice on Discussion StatusCitation: Sofieva, V. F., Vira, J., Kyrölä, E., Tamminen, J., Kan, V., Dalaudier, F., Hauchecorne, A., Bertaux, J.-L., Fussen, D., Vanhellemont, F., Barrot, G., and Fanton d'Andon, O.: Retrievals from GOMOS stellar occultation measurements using characterization of modeling errors, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., 3, 579-597, doi:10.5194/amtd-3-579-2010, 2010. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
