Speaker
Dr
Lucien Froidevaux
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Description
We have updated the Global Ozone Chemistry and Related Trace gas Data Records for the Stratosphere (GOZCARDS) data (see Froidevaux et al. [2015]) with yearly netCDF files (2013-2016) of merged monthly zonal mean ozone mixing ratio profiles versus pressure. For this ongoing merged satellite record, we have updated the public records (version 1 GOZCARDS ozone data, originally produced for 1979-2012) with Aura MLS data from 2013 through 2016; for 2015 and 2016, we adjusted MLS v4.2 zonal means to match MLS v2.2 data, in order to extend the original GOZCARDS mixing ratios (based on v2.2) in a homogeneous way. All GOZCARDS merged data files (including those mentioned below) also include standard deviation and standard error profiles, along with other information/metadata. A new GOZCARDS record (version 2.2, 1979-2016) was produced in a way similar to the creation of the original GOZCARDS data, but on twice as fine a pressure grid in the stratosphere, by using updated HALOE, SAGE-I, SAGE-II, and Aura MLS data sets on this finer grid. Furthermore, as there was some interest in a data set using just HALOE and Aura MLS mixing ratios versus pressure, we also produced this type of new GOZCARDS data record (version 2.1 for 1991-2016) on the finer vertical grid. We briefly discuss some comparisons among the above GOZCARDS data records, as well as between GOZCARDS and other long-term merged ozone data sets (e.g., the Stratospheric Water and OzOne Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) data set, see Davis et al. [2016]).
Primary author
Dr
Lucien Froidevaux
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Co-authors
Dr
John Anderson
(Hampton University, Hampton VA USA)
Dr
Ray Wang
(Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA USA)
Mr
Ryan Fuller
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech)
