Water vapour and ozone in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere: global climatologies from three Canadian limb-viewing instruments

Jeffery, Paul S.; Walker, Kaley A.; Sioris, Chris E.; Boone, Chris D.; Degenstein, Doug; Manney, Gloria L.; McElroy, C. Thomas; Millán, Luis; Plummer, David A.; Ryan, Niall J.; Sheese, Patrick E.; Zou, Jiansheng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14709-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14709-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14709-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 22

Research article

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21 Nov 2022

Research article |

| 21 Nov 2022

Water vapour and ozone in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere: global climatologies from three Canadian limb-viewing instruments

Paul S. Jeffery, Kaley A. Walker, Chris E. Sioris, Chris D. Boone, Doug Degenstein, Gloria L. Manney, C. Thomas McElroy, Luis Millán, David A. Plummer, Niall J. Ryan, Patrick E. Sheese, and Jiansheng Zou

Data sets

ACE-FTS Version 3.6 UTLS Climatologies - water vapour & ozone Paul Jeffery and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/MPD2H2

ACE-FTS v4.2 UTLS Climatologies - water vapour & ozone Paul Jeffery and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/9YGBAG

ACE-MAESTRO Version 31 UTLS Climatologies - water vapour Paul Jeffery and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/IVPMYL

ACE-MAESTRO Version 3.13 UTLS Climatologies - ozone Paul Jeffery and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/TTCFOV

Odin-OSIRIS Version 5.10 UTLS Climatologies - ozone Paul Jeffery and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/DWNVGE

CMAM39-SD Subsampled-Model UTLS Climatologies Paul Jeffery and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/UUFUHE

Data Quality Flags for ACE-FTS Level 2 Version 4.1/4.2 Data Set Patrick Sheese and Kaley Walker https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/BC4ATC

Level 2 Data, Version 3.5/3.6 ACE-FTS https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/

Level 2 Data, Version 4.1/4.2 ACE-FTS https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/

Level 2 Data, Version 3.13 MAESTRO https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/

Level 2 Data, Version 31 MAESTRO https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/

Short summary

The upper troposphere–lower stratosphere is one of the most variable regions in the atmosphere. To improve our understanding of water vapour and ozone concentrations in this region, climatologies have been developed from 14 years of measurements from three Canadian satellite instruments. Horizontal and vertical coordinates have been chosen to minimize the effects of variability. To aid in analysis, model simulations have been used to characterize differences between instrument climatologies.