The novel HALO mini-DOAS instrument: inferring trace gas concentrations from air-borne UV/visible limb spectroscopy under all skies using the scaling method

We report on a novel 6 channel optical spectrometer (further on called mini-DOAS instrument) for aircraftborne nadir and limb measurements of atmospheric trace gases, liquid and solid water, and spectral radiances in the UV/vis and nearIR spectral ranges. The spectrometer was developed for measureme...

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Hauptverfasser: Hüneke, Tilman (VerfasserIn) , Aderhold, Oliver-Alex (VerfasserIn) , Bounin, Jannik (VerfasserIn) , Dorf, Marcel (VerfasserIn) , Gentry, Eric (VerfasserIn) , Großmann, Katja (VerfasserIn) , Heckl, Mareike (VerfasserIn) , Knapp, Marvin (VerfasserIn) , Knecht, Matthias (VerfasserIn) , Lörks, Dominique (VerfasserIn) , Ludmann, Sabrina (VerfasserIn) , Raecke, Rasmus (VerfasserIn) , Reichert, Marcel (VerfasserIn) , Weimar, Jannis (VerfasserIn) , Werner, Bodo (VerfasserIn) , Pfeilsticker, Klaus (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 8 November 2017
In: Atmospheric measurement techniques discussions
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 10, Pages: 4209–4234
ISSN:1867-8610
DOI:10.5194/amt-2017-89
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-2017-89
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Verfasserangaben:Tilman Hüneke, Oliver-Alex Aderhold, Jannik Bounin, Marcel Dorf, Eric Gentry, Katja Grossmann, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Peter Hoor, Patrick Jöckel, Mareike Kenntner, Marvin Knapp, Matthias Knecht, Dominique Lörks, Sabrina Ludmann, Rasmus Raecke, Marcel Reichert, Jannis Weimar, Bodo Werner, Andreas Zahn, Helmut Ziereis, and Klaus Pfeilsticker
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Zusammenfassung:We report on a novel 6 channel optical spectrometer (further on called mini-DOAS instrument) for aircraftborne nadir and limb measurements of atmospheric trace gases, liquid and solid water, and spectral radiances in the UV/vis and nearIR spectral ranges. The spectrometer was developed for measurements from aboard the HALO (http://www.halo.dlr.de/) research aircraft during dedicated research missions. Here we report on the relevant instrumental details and the novel scaling method used to infer the mixing ratios of UV/vis absorbing trace gases from their absorption measured in limb geometry. The uncertainties of the scaling method are assessed for NO2 and BrO measurements. Some first results are reported along with complementary measurements and comparisons with model predictions for a selected HALO research flight from Cape Town to Antarctica, which was performed during the research mission ESMVal on 13 September 2012.
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ISSN:1867-8610
DOI:10.5194/amt-2017-89