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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1855-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1855-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Data description paper
| 
05 May 2021
Data description paper |
| 05 May 2021
| 05 May 2021
Overview and update of the SPARC Data Initiative: comparison of stratospheric composition measurements from satellite limb sounders
Michaela I. Hegglin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Susann Tegtmeier
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
John Anderson
Atmospheric Science, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA
Adam E. Bourassa
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Samuel Brohede
FluxSense AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
Doug Degenstein
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Lucien Froidevaux
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Bernd Funke
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Granada, Spain
John Gille
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Yasuko Kasai
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Erkki T. Kyrölä
Earth observation, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Jerry Lumpe
Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Donal Murtagh
Department of Space, Earth, and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jessica L. Neu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Kristell Pérot
Department of Space, Earth, and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Ellis E. Remsberg
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Alexei Rozanov
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Matthew Toohey
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Joachim Urban
Department of Space, Earth, and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
deceased
Thomas von Clarmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kaley A. Walker
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Hsiang-Jui Wang
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Carlo Arosio
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Robert Damadeo
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Ryan A. Fuller
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Gretchen Lingenfelser
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
retired
Christopher McLinden
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
Diane Pendlebury
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
Chris Roth
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Niall J. Ryan
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Christopher Sioris
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
Lesley Smith
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Katja Weigel
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Data sets
SPARC Data Initiative monthly zonal mean composition measurements from stratospheric limb sounders (1978-2018) Michaela I. Hegglin, Susann Tegtmeier, John Anderson, Adam E. Bourassa, Samuel Brohede, Doug Degenstein, Lucien Froidevaux, Bernd Funke, John Gille, Yasuko Kasai, Erkki Kyrölä, Jerry Lumpe, Donal Murtagh, Jessica L. Neu, Kristell Pérot, Ellis Remsberg, Alexey Rozanov, Matthew Toohey, Joachim Urban, Thomas von Clarmann, Kaley A. Walker, Hsiang-Jui Wang, Carlo Arosio, Robert Damadeo, Ryan Fuller, Gretchen Lingenfelser, Christopher McLinden, Diane Pendlebury, Chris Roth, Niall J. Ryan, Christopher Sioris, Lesley Smith, and Katja Weigel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4265392
Short summary
An overview of the SPARC Data Initiative is presented, to date the most comprehensive assessment of stratospheric composition measurements spanning 1979–2018. Measurements of 26 chemical constituents obtained from an international suite of space-based limb sounders were compiled into vertically resolved, zonal monthly mean time series. The quality and consistency of these gridded datasets are then evaluated using a climatological validation approach and a range of diagnostics.
An overview of the SPARC Data Initiative is presented, to date the most comprehensive assessment...
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