Technical Note: Reanalysis of upper troposphere humidity data from the MOZAIC programme for the period 1994 to 2009

Smit, H. G. J.; Rohs, S.; Neis, P.; Boulanger, D.; Krämer, M.; Wahner, A.; Petzold, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13241-2014

Articles | Volume 14, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13241-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13241-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 23

Technical note

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11 Dec 2014

Technical note |

| 11 Dec 2014

Technical Note: Reanalysis of upper troposphere humidity data from the MOZAIC programme for the period 1994 to 2009

H. G. J. Smit, S. Rohs, P. Neis, D. Boulanger, M. Krämer, A. Wahner, and A. Petzold

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RC C5412: 'Review of manuscript by Smit et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Jul 2014
- AC C8135: 'Authors response', Andreas Petzold, 16 Oct 2014
RC C5566: 'Interactive comment on “Technical Note: Reanalysis of upper troposphere humidity data from the MOZAIC programme for the period 1994 to 2009” by H. Smit et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Aug 2014
- AC C8136: 'Authors response', Andreas Petzold, 16 Oct 2014

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Short summary

Long-term water vapour measurements from the MOZAIC programme are a unique source for upper troposphere humidity data. However, due to an error in the calibration procedure, RH data from MOZAIC were biased towards higher values for the period starting in year 2000. Here we report the procedures followed to reanalyse the calibrations and to reprocess the entire MOZAIC RH data. This study serves as the reference publication for the reanalysed MOZAIC RH data base for the period 1994 to 2009.