Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics www.atmos-chem-phys.net 1680-7316 1680-7324 8 13 2008 10.5194/acp-8-3529-2008 http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/3529/2008/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/3529/2008/acp-8-3529-2008.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/3529/2008/acp-8-3529-2008.pdf 3529 3562 2008-07-07 Validation of HNO₃, ClONO₂, and N₂O₅ from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) M. A. Wolff mwolff@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca T. Kerzenmacher K. Strong K. A. Walker M. Toohey E. Dupuy P. F. Bernath C. D. Boone S. Brohede V. Catoire T. von Clarmann M. Coffey W. H. Daffer M. De Mazière P. Duchatelet N. Glatthor D. W. T. Griffith J. Hannigan F. Hase M. Höpfner N. Huret N. Jones K. Jucks A. Kagawa Y. Kasai I. Kramer H. Küllmann J. Kuttippurath E. Mahieu G. Manney C. T. McElroy C. McLinden Y. Mébarki S. Mikuteit D. Murtagh C. Piccolo P. Raspollini M. Ridolfi R. Ruhnke M. Santee C. Senten D. Smale C. Tétard J. Urban S. Wood Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK Department of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de L'Environment CNRS – Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe and Univ. of Karlsruhe, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA Columbus Technologies Inc., Pasadena, CA, USA Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Environmental Sensing and Network Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, USA Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", National Research Center (CNR), Firenze, Italy Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica e Inorganica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd., Central Otago, New Zealand Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France now at: LMD/CNRS Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) satellite was launched on 12 August 2003. Its two instruments measure vertical profiles of over 30 atmospheric trace gases by analyzing solar occultation spectra in the ultraviolet/visible and infrared wavelength regions. The reservoir gases HNO₃, ClONO₂, and N₂O₅ are three of the key species provided by the primary instrument, the ACE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS). This paper describes the ACE-FTS version 2.2 data products, including the N₂O₅ update, for the three species and presents validation comparisons with available observations. We have compared volume mixing ratio (VMR) profiles of HNO₃, ClONO₂, and N₂O₅ with measurements by other satellite instruments (SMR, MLS, MIPAS), aircraft measurements (ASUR), and single balloon-flights (SPIRALE, FIRS-2). Partial columns of HNO₃ and ClONO₂ were also compared with measurements by ground-based Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometers. Overall the quality of the ACE-FTS v2.2 HNO₃ VMR profiles is good from 18 to 35 km. For the statistical satellite comparisons, the mean absolute differences are generally within ±1 ppbv ±20%) from 18 to 35 km. For MIPAS and MLS comparisons only, mean relative differences lie within±10% between 10 and 36 km. ACE-FTS HNO₃ partial columns (~15–30 km) show a slight negative bias of −1.3% relative to the ground-based FTIRs at latitudes ranging from 77.8° S–76.5° N. Good agreement between ACE-FTS ClONO₂ and MIPAS, using the Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung and Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IMK-IAA) data processor is seen. Mean absolute differences are typically within ±0.01 ppbv between 16 and 27 km and less than +0.09 ppbv between 27 and 34 km. The ClONO₂ partial column comparisons show varying degrees of agreement, depending on the location and the quality of the FTIR measurements. Good agreement was found for the comparisons with the midlatitude Jungfraujoch partial columns for which the mean relative difference is 4.7%. 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