Case studies of the impact of orbital sampling on stratospheric trend detection and derivation of tropical vertical velocities: solar occultation vs. limb emission sounding

Millán, Luis F.; Livesey, Nathaniel J.; Santee, Michelle L.; Neu, Jessica L.; Manney, Gloria L.; Fuller, Ryan A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11521-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11521-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11521-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 18

Research article

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16 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 16 Sep 2016

Case studies of the impact of orbital sampling on stratospheric trend detection and derivation of tropical vertical velocities: solar occultation vs. limb emission sounding

Luis F. Millán, Nathaniel J. Livesey, Michelle L. Santee, Jessica L. Neu, Gloria L. Manney, and Ryan A. Fuller

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 May 2016
- AC1: 'Response to referee 2', Luis Millan, 08 Jun 2016
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 May 2016
- AC2: 'Response to referee 1', Luis Millan, 13 Jun 2016

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AR by Luis Millan on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Aug 2016) by Bernd Funke

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (28 Aug 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Aug 2016) by Bernd Funke

AR by Luis Millan on behalf of the Authors (03 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This paper describes the impact of orbital sampling applied to stratospheric temperature and trace gas fields. Model fields are sampled using real sampling patterns from different satellites. We find that coarse nonuniform sampling patterns may introduce non-negligible errors into the inferred magnitude of temperature and trace gas trends and necessitate considerably longer records for their definitive detection.