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TI: Validation of AIRS Column Ozone Retrievals
AU: * Irion, F W
EM: bill.irion@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91009 United States
AU: Newchurch, M J
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AF: University of Alabama at Huntsville, 301 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35899 United States
AU: Ayoub, M A
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AF: University of Alabama at Huntsville, 301 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35899 United States
AU: Eldering, A
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AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91009 United States
AU: Lee, S
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AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91009 United States
AU: Gunson, M R
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AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91009 United States
AB: The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument was launched May, 2002 on the EOS Aqua platform. Using cloud-cleared thermal radiance spectra observed in the nadir, global measurements of ozone profiles and column densities have been made twice-daily on a $\sim$45 km footprint using the O$_{3}$ $\nu_{1}$ and $\nu_{3}$ fundamental bands. We report comparisons of AIRS ozone column retrievals with EP-TOMS measurements between $40\deg$ S and $40\deg$ N using version 3.1.9 of the AIRS retrieval algorithm.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0340 Middle atmosphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting