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AN: A23F-03    [Abstracts]
TI: An Early Assessment of Data Quality From the Aura Satellite's Microwave Limb Sounder Experiment: Ozone and Hydrogen Chloride
AU: * Froidevaux, L
EM: lucien@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Drouin, B J
EM: bjd@spec.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Filipiak, M J
EM: mjf@met.ed.ac.uk
AF: School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ United Kingdom
AU: Jiang, Y B
EM: ybj@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Livesey, N J
EM: livesey@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Pickett, H M
EM: hmp@spec.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Pumphrey, H C
EM: hcp@met.ed.ac.uk
AF: School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ United Kingdom
AU: Read, W G
EM: bill@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Waters, J W
EM: joe@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Calif. Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-701, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: We present an early assessment of data quality from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) onboard the Earth Observing System Aura satellite. We focus on measurements of ozone from several frequency bands (from about 200 GHz to 2.5 THz) and hydrogen chloride near 626 GHz. We discuss expected uncertainties and simulation results, as well as some early comparisons with other datasets. We present our view of current strengths and limitations for these data products, along with a look towards future validation studies and data production.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0340 Middle atmosphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting