CRISTA-NF observations in the vicinity of the polar vortex / von Christoph Kalicinsky. 2013
Content
- Introduction
- Polar vortex, polar stratospheric clouds and ozone chemistry
- CRISTA-NF instrument
- Limb sounding measurement technique
- Instrument details
- Calibration
- Calibrated limb emission spectra
- LOS determination
- PSC observations and discrimination of PSC types
- Cloud Index
- PSC observations
- Polar stratospheric clouds containing NAT particles
- Discrimination of ice PSCs
- Observation of a polar stratospheric ice cloud during flight 1
- Location of the polar stratospheric ice cloud
- Comparison with CALIOP measurements on CALIPSO
- Horizontal extent of the ice cloud
- Summary and outlook
- Retrieval
- Retrieval technique
- Retrieval setup
- Retrieval results
- Exploitation of the full potential of the vertical sampling
- Retrieval diagnostics
- RECONCILE Spitsbergen flights
- Situation during flight 11
- CRISTA-NF retrieval results
- Validation
- Retrieval results for flight 11
- Polar vortex
- Ozone-CFC-11-relation
- De- and renitrification during flight 11
- Summary
- Comparison with CLaMS
- CLaMS description and setup
- Advection and mixing
- Air mass origin
- Ozone chemistry and chlorine activation
- Denitrification
- Summary
- Conclusion and outlook
- Calibration and LOS determination
- Post-flight wavelength calibration
- Radiometric absolute calibration
- Determination of time shift between UCSE and CRISTA-NF
- Improvement of LOS determination
- Retrieval
- RECONCILE flight 10
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography