Intercomparison of remote measurements of stratospheric NO and NO2     

H. K. Roscoe  B. J. Kerridge  S. Pollitt  N. Louisnard  J. M. Flaud  C. Camy-Peyret  C. Alamichel  J-P. Pommereau  T. Ogawa  N. Iwagami  M. T. Coffey  W. Mankin  W. F. J. Evans  C. T. McElroy  J. Kerr 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1990,10(2):111-144

During the 1982 and 1983 Balloon Intercomparison Campaigns, the vertical profile of stratospheric NO₂ was measured remotely by nine instruments and that of NO by two. Total overhead columns were measured by two more instruments. Between 30 and 35km, where measurements overlapped, agreement between NO profiles was within ±30%, which is better than the accuracies claimed by the experimenters. Between 35 and 40km there was similarly good agreement between NO₂ profiles, but below 30km, differences of greater than a factor three were found. In the second Campaign, NO₂ values from most instruments agreed within their quoted errors, except that the Oxford radiometer gave much lower values; but the first Campaign and the column measurements show a more uniform spread of results.These differences below 30km could not be resolved, but new laboratory measurements are planned which should do so.  相似文献   

The Balloon Intercomparison Campaigns an introduction and overview     

R. T. Watson  H. K. Roscoe  P. T. Woods 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1990,10(2):99-110

The Balloon Intercomparison Campaigns of 1982 and 1983 compared balloon-borne sensors of HCl, HNO3, NO2, NO and O3, and measured many other stratospheric constituents. Most sensors were remote rather than in-situ. In the 1982 campaign, three large gondolas were successfully launched from Palestine, Texas on the same day; in the 1983 campaign, four gondolas were launched within 3 days. Accompanying papers describe the results of these successful intercomparisons.  相似文献   

NCEP再分析资料和中国站点观测资料的分析与比较   总被引：44，自引：7，他引：37  

赵天保  艾丽坤  冯锦明 《气候与环境研究》2004,9(2):278-294

美国国家环境预报中心(NCEP)和国家大气中心(NCAR)的全球再分析资料,在很多气候模拟和预测研究中都被作为区域气候模式的驱动场和初始场资料,并用来检验模拟结果的.作者通过对NCEP的2种再分析资料NCEPI和NCEPⅡ与中国台站观测资料的月平均温度和月降水总量进行相互插值,分析和比较了NCEPⅠ、NCEPⅡ再分析值与中国区域内观测值之间的差异以及2种再分析资料之间的差异.从结果可以看到,NCEP再分析资料的月平均温度较观测值普遍偏低,而月降水总量较观测值则偏高;就季节变化而言,NCEP再分析值在夏季和年平均模拟的较好,冬季较差.同时可以看到,在温度和降水方面NCEPⅡ较NCEPⅠ都有所改进,尤其在中国东部地区,改进较为明显.  相似文献   

Dissimilarity among Ocean Reanalyses in Equatorial Pacific Upper-Ocean Heat Content and Its Relationship with ENSO     

Paxson K.Y.CHEUNG  Wen ZHOU  Dongxiao WANG  Marco Y.T.LEUNG 《大气科学进展》2022,39(1):67-79

This study focuses on the temporal variation of dissimilarity in heat content(HC)anomalies in the upper 300 m of ocean(HC300A)in the equatorial Pacific(±10°N)and its response to the El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation(ENSO).The HC300A anomalies are derived from four ocean reanalyses that are commonly used in ENSO studies and are compared using a simple differencing method.The dissimilarity in HC300A is found to vary closely with the magnitude of ENSO(regardless of phase),meaning that it tends to be greater during strong ENSO events.However,the dissimilarity among ocean reanalyses persists after the event decays.This effect is more pronounced after strong events.The persistence of the dissimilarity after ENSO events is a result of a late maturation of the ENSO signal,its persistence,and the interruption of the signal decay due to follow-up ENSO events.The combined effect of these three factors slows down the decay of HC300A in the region and hence results in the slow decay of dissimilarity.It is also found that areas with a significant spread in vertical temperature profiles collocate with the ENSO signal during warm ENSO phases.Thus,differences in subsurface process reconstruction are a significant factor in the dissimilarity among ocean reanalyses during warm ENSO events.  相似文献   

Assessing the impact of land use change on hydrology by ensemble modeling (LUCHEM) III: Scenario analysis   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J.A. Huisman  L. Breuer  H. Bormann  A. Bronstert  B.F.W. Croke  H.-G. Frede  T. Gräff  L. Hubrechts  A.J. Jakeman  G. Kite  J. Lanini  G. Leavesley  D.P. Lettenmaier  G. Lindström  J. Seibert  M. Sivapalan  N.R. Viney  P. Willems 《Advances in water resources》2009

An ensemble of 10 hydrological models was applied to the same set of land use change scenarios. There was general agreement about the direction of changes in the mean annual discharge and 90% discharge percentile predicted by the ensemble members, although a considerable range in the magnitude of predictions for the scenarios and catchments under consideration was obvious. Differences in the magnitude of the increase were attributed to the different mean annual actual evapotranspiration rates for each land use type. The ensemble of model runs was further analyzed with deterministic and probabilistic ensemble methods. The deterministic ensemble method based on a trimmed mean resulted in a single somewhat more reliable scenario prediction. The probabilistic reliability ensemble averaging (REA) method allowed a quantification of the model structure uncertainty in the scenario predictions. It was concluded that the use of a model ensemble has greatly increased our confidence in the reliability of the model predictions.  相似文献   

Intercomparison of Formaldehyde Measurements in Clean and Polluted Atmospheres   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

L. M. Cárdenas  D. J. Brassington  B. J. Allan  H. Coe  B. Alicke  Ulrich Platt  K. M. Wilson  J. M. C. Plane  S. A. Penkett 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2000,37(1):53-80

Three different techniques used tomeasure atmospheric formaldehyde were compared duringa field campaign carried out at a clean maritime siteon the West coast of Ireland. Two spectroscopictechniques Differential Optical AbsorptionSpectroscopy (DOAS) and Tunable Diode Laser AbsorptionSpectroscopy (TDLAS), together with a glass coil/Hantzschreaction/fluorescence technique, wereemployed for measurements of atmospheric formaldehydeof the order of a few hundred pptv. The betteragreement was observed between the fluorescence andDOAS instruments.Two DOAS instruments were compared to the glasscoil/Hantzsch reaction/fluorescence technique at asemi-polluted site on the North Norfolk coast, U.K.,where concentrations of formaldehyde were observed atlevels up to 4 ppbv. A very good agreement wasobserved between the two instruments.The glass coil/Hantzsch reaction/fluorescence and theTDLAS instruments were also deployed simultaneously inorder to measure indoor air inside a mobile laboratorylocated at the Imperial College Silwood Park site nearAscot, U.K. The doors of the mobile laboratory wereleft open in order to obtain the backgroundformaldehyde concentrations. Closing them afterwardsallowed us to observe the increase in concentrationsas a result of indoor emissions. The agreement betweenthe two instruments was outstanding (correlationcoefficient was 99%).The results from this study showed that of the fourinstruments included in this intercomparison the glasscoil/Hantzsch reaction/fluorescence technique provedthe most suitable for continuous measurements offormaldehyde in the background atmosphere.  相似文献   

An intercomparison of remotely sensed soil moisture products at various spatial scales over the Iberian Peninsula   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

R. M. Parinussa  M. T. Yilmaz  M. C. Anderson  C. R. Hain  R. A. M. de Jeu 《水文研究》2014,28(18):4865-4876

Soil moisture (SM) can be retrieved from active microwave (AM), passive microwave (PM) and thermal infrared (TIR) observations, each having unique spatial and temporal coverages. A limitation of TIR‐based retrievals is a dependence on cloud‐free conditions, whereas microwave retrievals are almost all weather proof. A downside of SM retrievals from PM is the coarse spatial resolution. Although SM retrievals at coarse spatial resolution proved to be valuable for global‐scale and continental‐scale studies, their value for regional‐scale studies remains limited. To increase the use of SM retrievals from PM observations, an existing method to enhance their spatial resolution was applied. We present an intercomparison study over the Iberian Peninsula for three SM products on two different spatial sampling grids. The remotely sensed SM products were also compared with in situ observations from the Remedhus network. Variations between ground data and satellite‐based SM are observed; all three remotely sensed SM products show good agreement to the ground observations. The comparison shows that these ground observations and satellite data are consistent, based on the correlation coefficient (R) and root mean square error (RMSE). The remotely sensed products were intercompared after sampling at 25 × 25 km² and after applying the smoothing filter‐based intensity modulation (SFIM) downscaling technique at 10 × 10 km² grids. After the application of the SFIM technique, the SM retrievals from PM observations show better agreement with the other remotely sensed SM products for approximately 40% of the study area. For another 40% of the study area, we found a similar agreement between these product combinations, whereas in extreme environments, both arid and densely vegetated regions, the agreement decreases after the application of the SFIM technique. Agreement between retrievals of absolute SM content from PM and TIR observations is generally high (R = 0.77 for semi‐arid areas). This study enhances our understanding of the remotely sensed SM products for improvements of SM retrieval and merging strategies. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献