Articles | Volume 17, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2775-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2775-2017
Research article
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23 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2017

An assessment of the climatological representativeness of IAGOS-CARIBIC trace gas measurements using EMAC model simulations

Johannes Eckstein, Roland Ruhnke, Andreas Zahn, Marco Neumaier, Ole Kirner, and Peter Braesicke

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Data on atmospheric trace gases have been collected with instruments on-board a commercial airliner for more than 10 years in the CARIBIC project. We investigate which species in the dataset can be used for a representative climatology, by comparing data from the chemistry–climate model EMAC along the flight paths to a larger set of model data. We find that long-lived species are captured quite well by the CARIBIC sample while this is not the case for more variable, shorter-lived species.
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