1Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
4National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
5National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, USA
6Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
7Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, UK
8Department of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
9New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Received: 20 Jul 2011 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 07 Nov 2011
Abstract. The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) aboard the Canadian satellite SCISAT (launched in August 2003) was designed to investigate the composition of the upper troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. ACE-FTS utilizes solar occultation to measure temperature and pressure as well as vertical profiles of over thirty chemical species including O3, H2O, CH4, N2O, CO, NO, NO2, N2O5, HNO3, HCl, ClONO2, CCl3F, CCl2F2, and HF. Global coverage for each species is obtained approximately over a three month period and measurements are made with a vertical resolution of typically 3–4 km. A quality-controlled climatology has been created for each of these 14 baseline species, where individual profiles are averaged over the period of February 2004 to February 2009. Measurements used are from the ACE-FTS version 2.2 data set including updates for O3 and N2O5. The climatological fields are provided on a monthly and three-monthly basis (DJF, MAM, JJA, SON) at 5 degree latitude and equivalent latitude spacing and on 28 pressure surfaces (26 of which are defined by the Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Chemistry-Climate Model Validation Activity). The ACE-FTS climatological data set is available through the ACE website.
Revised: 25 Apr 2012 – Accepted: 18 May 2012 – Published: 14 Jun 2012
Jones, A., Walker, K. A., Jin, J. J., Taylor, J. R., Boone, C. D., Bernath, P. F., Brohede, S., Manney, G. L., McLeod, S., Hughes, R., and Daffer, W. H.: Technical Note: A trace gas climatology derived from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) data set, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 5207-5220, doi:10.5194/acp-12-5207-2012, 2012.