The new Pandora total ozone algorithm including the retrieval of effective ozone temperature Martin Tiefengraber, Alexander Cede
TO3 difference Pandora vs. OMI Langley, Virginia (38.9, -77.2) OMI: OMTO3 v8.5 Pandora standard TO3 OMI - Pandora Seasonal cycle ~ -10 to + 10 DU Temperature?
Pandora standard TO3 algorithm Fitting window: 310 to 330 nm Background poly: 4 Offset poly: 0 XSec: Brion / Daumont / Malicet (BDM) 225 K Absorption free reference (theoretical reference)
Include TEff fit TEff fit fails Reasons: Spectral stray light No absolute calibration spectral feature due to stray light what to say about absolute calibration
“Synthetic” ozone-free reference including TEff fit SC 528 DU TEff 221 K Reference: take noon time data and add estimated SC and TEff. Only unique set of SC and TEff SC 307 DU TEff 228 K How do we know SC and TEff values? Auto-Cross-Calibration
Auto-Cross-Calibration ∆TEff +5 K ∆TEff 0 K ∆SC +5 DU ∆SC + 0 K ∆SC + 5 K ∆SC 0 K First guess SC = theoretical reference First guess TEff = 225K Minimize difference between: Day1(refDay1) and Day1(refDay2) up to now: cumbersome iterative approach
Theoretical and synthetic reference Theoretical reference and best guess synthetic reference What about additional noise due to TEff fitting?
Additional noise when including TEff fit Additional noise due to TEff fit: from ~ 1.2 DU to ~ 1.6 DU Enhanced point to point variation ↔ TEff variation Single points retrieval possible no actual noise estimation!
TO3 difference Pandora vs. OMI I Pandora TO3 retrieval with TEffO3 from TOMS climatology Seasonal cycle: ~ -10 to +10 ~ -9 to +5 Note: TOMS v8.5 doesn’t use ozone weighted temperature. Instead a Beers law approximation for each layer is applied and the radiance sensitivity is computed.
TO3 difference Pandora vs. OMI II Pandora TO3 retrieval with TEffO3 fitted Seasonal cycle ~ -10 to +10 ~ -9 to +5 ~ -9 to +7
TO3 difference Pandora vs. OMI III TEff based on: TOMS O3 profile (with TO3 corrected) fixed temperature climatology NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis: actual temperature profile fixed O3 profile (US std. atmos.)
Conclusions / What’s next? Season cycle (TO3 OMI-Pandora) cannot be explained by temperature only New field calibration method applied “Auto-Cross-Calibration” TEff retrieval reasonable (single points retrieval) TO3 + TEff retrieval with theoretical reference Spectral stray light correction (matrix method) Absolute calibration
Thank you very much !
Side note: effect of O3 absorption cross section TO3(Serdyuchenko) > TO3(BDM) TEffO3(Serdyuchenko) TEffO3(BDM)
Backup slide: definition TEff TEff= i=1 N T i ∗ n O3, i i=1 N n O3, i