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AN: A41A-0012 [Abstracts]
TI: Initial retrievals and characterization of nitric acid from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer limb
viewing mode
AU: * Kulawik, S S
EM: susan.kulawik@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: 1Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove,
Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AU: Worden, J
EM: John.Worden@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: 1Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove,
Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AU: Worden, H
EM: Helen.Worden@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: 1Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove,
Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AU: Bowman, K
EM: Kevin.Bowman@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: 1Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove,
Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AU: Herman, R L
EM: Robert .Herman@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: 1Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove,
Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AU: Li, Q
EM: Qinbin.Li.Herman@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: 1Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove,
Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AB:
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.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005