MIPAS ozone in an extended altitude range

MIPAS Middle atmosphere mode measurements allow to retrieve ozone up to altitudes of 105 km. The left panel shows an altitude-resolved time series of tropical ozone mixing ratios from 2007 to 2012 for daytime. These are compared to the respective nighttime measurements (right) as published by López-Puertas et al. in AMT.

The paper by López-Puertas et al. (2023) describes the inversion of ozone data from MIPAS middle atmosphere spectra which requires modelling of radiances under non-local thermodynamic equilibrium. The ozone dataset comprises from 20 to 100km, has a pole-to-pole latitude coverage, covers day and nighttime, and spans from 2005 until 2012. A validation of the data against other satellite measurements and an overall description of ozone is also presented. This is an important dataset for the community and describes the major characteristics of stratospheric and mesospheric ozone.

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