21st October D3L2Kerridge1 Millimetre-wave Limb-Sounding Lecture by B.Kerridge Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK ESA-MOST DRAGON 2 PROGRAMME Advanced.

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21st October D3L2Kerridge1 Millimetre-wave Limb-Sounding Lecture by B.Kerridge Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK ESA-MOST DRAGON 2 PROGRAMME Advanced Training Course in Atmospheric Remote Sensing th October 2009, Nanjing University

21st October D3L2Kerridge2 Contents 1.Principles of mm-wave sounding ─Radiative transfer & spectroscopy 2.Instrument attributes 3.Linear retrieval diagnostics 4.Odin SMR and Aura MLS 5.Summary and future advances

21st October D3L2Kerridge3 1. Principles of mm-wave sounding 1.In microwave – sub-millimetre-wave region  > 100  m (0.1mm), < 100 cm -1, f < 3THz most molecular transitions are pure rotational Rotational levels closely-spaced in energy (  ~1 cm -1 ) Collisions with N 2 & O 2 maintain Boltzmann population distributions of rotational levels up to the thermosphere T R → T k – local kinetic temperature J(,T R ) → B(,T K ) – local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) 2.Departure from LTE can be significant at mid-IR and shorter ’s ─radiative and photochemical processes can affect populations of vibrational levels (  ~1,000 cm -1 ) and electronic levels (  ~10,000 cm -1 ) in stratosphere and above ─have to be modelled in some cases, even if targeting low atmosphere

21st October D3L2Kerridge4 Radiative Transfer Equation at Long Wavelengths Planck Function (Assuming boundary emissivity =1) If(Rayleigh-Jeans)

21st October D3L2Kerridge5 Radiative Transfer Equation at Long Wavelengths continued  Planck Function linearly dependent on T(z) cf IR wavelengths  “Brightness Temperature” defined as: – This is the simplest possible atmospheric radiative transfer equation, except direct-sun absorption. – Applies unless surface reflectivity (nadir) or cloud scattering are non-zero

21st October D3L2Kerridge6 Atmospheric spectra (H 2 O, O 2 & O 3 only) 0 – 1000 GHz for limb & nadir geometries 64 GHz O 2 - MSU 12km 10km 8km 6km Wings of strong H 2 O lines control spectral curvature & penetration depth in limb-views Nadir-views do not see to the surface at frequencies >150GHz Troposphere seen in limb-views <380GHz 22 GHz H 2 O – SSM/I

21st October D3L2Kerridge7 Wavelength Dependence of Cirrus Extinction ─ Mm-wave affected only by scattering from large ice particles (> 80  m) →To observe smaller cirrus size components would require frequencies up to ~THz ─ Thin tropical tropopause cirrus, PSCs and aerosols: R e < 10  m → These particulates transparent in mm-wave MARSCHALS IR sounders eg MIPAS & IASI 1mm

21st October D3L2Kerridge8 Contributions to mm-wave limb-opacity % Probability transmission > 3% Altitude /km Altitude /km Altitude /km % diff. Water vapour, ice & liq cloud % diff. when ice & liq. cloud removed % diff. when only ice cloud removed ─ Water vapour dominates ─ Ice clouds have an influence ─ Limb-paths “black-out” above liq cloud

21st October D3L2Kerridge9 2. Instrument Attributes ─Heterodyne (coherent) detection: 1.Signal from atmosphere mixed with local oscillator (LO) signal ─Down-conversion to intermediate frequency (IF) band for amplification ─Either upper & lower frequency bands superposed (DSB) or one band filtered out (SSB) or side-bands separated 2.Spectral resolution intrinsically high (bandwidth a more limiting factor) ─  Doppler (1000  m) = 0.01 x  Doppler (10  m) →Lines p-broadened throughout strat. and fully-resolvable →height leverage 3.NEBT (K) ~ T sys (K) / √ [  int (s) x  f (Hz) ] 4.A  ~ 2 ← Throughput determined by wavelength ─Long wavelengths: diffraction limited optics ─From polar orbit at 800km, vertical half-power beamwidth (HPBW) of 2km at tangent-point requires ~1.6m antenna at  1mm ─For  1mm, HPBW proportionally larger for same antenna size.

21st October D3L2Kerridge10 Spectra Simulated for MLS bands at 190 GHz (R2) and 240 GHz (R3) bands H2O HNO3 CO O3 HNO3

21st October D3L2Kerridge11 3. Linear Retrieval Diagnostics

21st October D3L2Kerridge12 H 2 O Weighting Functions for MLS

21st October D3L2Kerridge13 O 3 Weighting Functions for MLS

21st October D3L2Kerridge14 HNO 3 Weighting Functions for MLS

21st October D3L2Kerridge15 CO Weighting Functions for MLS

21st October D3L2Kerridge16 Influence of antenna width & oversampling on profile retrieval precision & resolution Retrieval of H 2 O, O 3, CO & HNO 3 profiles simulated for idealized case: ─ MLS 190 & 240 GHz bands; contiguous  f =100MHz ─ MLS T sys (DSB) 1000K; scan range & duration fixed ─ 2km retrieval level spacing; √S o (i,i) = 100% (diagonals) ─ Antenna: nominal HPBWs (4.2 or 3.2km) or pencil beam ─ Limb-view spacing: 300m or 2km Retrieval linear diagnostics examined: ─ Averaging kernels, AK FWHM and √ [ S x (i,i) / S o (i,i)]

21st October D3L2Kerridge17 Influence of antenna width and limb spacing on retrieval: H 2 O averaging kernels

21st October D3L2Kerridge18 Influence of antenna width and limb spacing on retrieval: O 3 averaging kernels

21st October D3L2Kerridge19 Influence of antenna width and limb spacing on retrieval: CO averaging kernels

21st October D3L2Kerridge20 Influence of antenna width and limb spacing on retrieval: HNO 3 averaging kernels

21st October D3L2Kerridge21 Influence of antenna width and limb spacing on retrieval: O 3 & H 2 O ESD & AK FWHM antenna convolved antenna convolved not convolved not convolved 300m spacing R1 Antenna: HPBW: 4.2km R2 Antenna: HPBW: 3.2km

21st October D3L2Kerridge22 Influence of antenna width and limb spacing on retrieval: HNO 3 & CO ESD & AK FWHM antenna not convolved antenna not convolved R1 Antenna HPBW: 4.2km R2 Antenna: HPBW: 3.2km

21st October D3L2Kerridge23 Antenna pattern width & oversampling ─Vertical resolution <HPBW achievable from spectral lineshape and oversampling ─Provided radiometric sensitivity sufficiently high ─Also assuming: perfect knowledge of antenna-pattern & tangent-point spacings ─For real antenna and retrieval level spacing of 2km, no additional benefit from reducing limb-view spacing from 2km to 300m.

21st October D3L2Kerridge24 Key Instrumental Uncertainties Pressure of a reference limb-view in scan & T profile retrieved accurately In addition to NEBT, precision & accuracy of constituent retrieval depend on knowledge of: ─ Vertical spacing of limb-views ─ Vertical shape of antenna pattern (for convolution of pencil beams) ─Critical for upper troposphere: H 2 O vertical gradient; clouds lower down ─ Beam efficiency and loss ─BB calibration target cannot be in front of antenna ─ Frequency-dependent responses of upper & lower side-bands ─Particularly for DSB receivers ─ Spectral baseline ─Especially structure on scale of atmospheric emission features

21st October D3L2Kerridge25 4. Odin SMR & Aura MLS ─Odin Sub-Millimetre Radiometer (SMR) ─Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) ─Satellite limb-emission sounders launched in 2002

21st October D3L2Kerridge26 ODIN SMR Technical Specifications The Instrument: Antenna size: 1.1 m Beam size at 119/550 GHz: 9.5'/ 2.1'(126") Main beam efficiency 90% Pointing uncertainty <10" (rms) Submm tuning range: 486–504, 541–581 GHz Submm T sys (SSB): 3300 K ← Cooling to 80K HEMT: GHz; T sys (SSB): 600 K AOS b’width / res.:1100 MHz / 1 MHz DAC b’width /res:100–800 MHz / 0.25–2 MHz The satellite: Orbit: sun-synchronous dawn-dusk, polar orbit, altitude 600 km Platform: 3-axis stabilized (reaction wheels, star sensors, gyros) Mass: 250 kg (bus 170 kg, instruments 80 kg) Size: Height 2m, width 3.8m (incl. solar panels)

21st October D3L2Kerridge27 ODIN Configuration and SMR Frequency Coverage Orbit Characteristics Circular sun-synchronous Altitude: 600 km Ascending node eq x-ing: 18:00 Inclination ~98° Orbit time 97mins (~15 orbits per day) Scan duration: 2 mins Limb-scans / orbit: 40

21st October D3L2Kerridge28 Example spectra from SMR Enhanced by PSCs Descent in vortex of air low in N 2 O – Odin SMR sees through PSCs to observe trace gases in Antarctic ozone hole

21st October D3L2Kerridge29 Odin SMR Distributions in S.Hem. Lower Strat. 19 th Sept – 5 th Oct K surface ~ 20km Vortex centred: ─ N 2 O low – desc. ─ NO y low – denit. ─ ClO high – act. → O 3 hole Warming splits vortex Vortex reforms ClO converted back to Cl reservoirs

21st October D3L2Kerridge30 Aura MLS in the A-Train MLS views forwards and limb scans in orbit plane

21st October D3L2Kerridge31 Aura MLS Technical Specifications See into troposphere

21st October D3L2Kerridge32 Example DSB Limb Spectra from MLS –By observing in higher frequency bands than Odin SMR, MLS detects two additional species important to stratospheric ozone chemistry: HCl (~625 GHz) and OH (~2.5 THz)

21st October D3L2Kerridge33 Aura MLS Retrieved Products

21st October D3L2Kerridge34 Tomographic Limb Sounding  185km Traditional: – concentric, homogeneous layers – 1-D profile retrieved from single-scan Tomographic: – 2-D structure in radiative transfer model – 2-D field retrieved from multiple-scans

21st October D3L2Kerridge35 Principles of Tomographic Limb-Sounding ─2-D RTM instead of spherically-symmetric atmosphere ─State-vector: 2-D grid instead of 1-D profile ─Measurement-vector: set of limb-scans which are inverted simultaneously ─Limb-scan spacing along-track fine enough to oversample retrieval grid or apply regularisation ─Given air volume viewed from many different directions → tomography ─Demonstrated operationally by Aura MLS

21st October D3L2Kerridge36 Practical Considerations –Iterative solution to Optimal Estimation equation: –S a is a priori covariance matrix of x –K is weighting function matrix w.r.t. x –S y is measurement error covariance matrix –Current memory limitations preclude storage of matrices of dimension N y –Provided S y is diagonal, matrices such as K T S y -1 K can be accumulated sequentially on limb-view by limb-view basis –Since N x is also large, further matrix manipulation required to make the problem computationally viable.

21st October D3L2Kerridge37 MLS Latitude-Height Cross-sections

21st October D3L2Kerridge38 MLS maps – 215hPa th Jun’05 Jonathan Jiang, MLS team, JPL MLS CO and O 3 higher than in GEOS4-CHEM – these discrepancies reduced in new version HNO 3 also extended to 215hPa

21st October D3L2Kerridge39 Seasonal Average Retrieval of Ice Water from Aura MLS & Odin SMR MLS SMR

21st October D3L2Kerridge40 Stratosphere Design optimised for upper trop. Bands at 300, 325 & 350GHz; SSB 12GHz bandwidth, 200MHz resolution First scientific campaign in tropics ESA airborne simulator for space sensor Tropical upper troposphere

21st October D3L2Kerridge41 Observation of H 2 O & O 3 through tropical cirrus demonstrated from aircraft MARSCHALS Observations Frequency (GHz) Cloud opaque in IR & near-IR limb-views mm-wave limb spectra co-located 0.75  m limb imager BT (K)

21st October D3L2Kerridge42 Cross-sections along aircraft flight track of cloud in IR and near-IR 16.8km 17.2km Near-IR limb image Cloud opaque in IR IR limb cloud index

21st October D3L2Kerridge43 5. Summary & Future Advances 1.Millimetre-wave limb-sounding is a powerful tool for profiling stratospheric trace gas distributions from space: ─Observations are insensitive to aerosol and PSCs and to non-thermal emission processes 2.Capability now extended to profile trace gas distributions in the upper troposphere ─A major advantage is that most cirrus clouds are (semi-)transparent at mm- wavelengths in limb-geometry ─Ice water distribution in upper troposphere retrieved by Odin SMR /Aura MLS from size component ( >80  m) which is seen at mm-wave. 3.Advance foreseen for possible future missions: ─optimisation for sounding the upper troposphere ─Significantly increase vertical & horizontal resolution & accuracy →Observe finer-scale structure in distributions of key trace gases (eg H 2 O, O 3, CO, HNO 3 ) →Investigate processes controlling composition in the height-range of particular importance to climate