Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II (ILAS-II), Version 3.0

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The Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS)-II is a satellite-borne sensor that measures ozone and its related chemical species in the high-latitude stratosphere on the basis of the solar occultation technique. There are approximately 14 measurements a day for each of the hemispheres, at sunrise seen from the satellite in the Northern Hemisphere and at sunset seen from the satellite in the Southern Hemisphere.
The retrieval algorithm is based on an onion-peeling method that uses a nonlinear least squares fitting for observed and theoretically calculated transmittance spectra (spectral fitting) at every 1 km downward from an altitude of 70 km to ~10 km to determine the volume mixing ratios of ten different trace gases (O3, HNO3, NO2, N2O, CH4, H2O, CFC-11, CFC-12, ClONO2, and N2O5). In this Version 3.0 data set, aerosol extinction coefficient and other auxiliary data are identical to the Version 2.0 data set.

Description

Creator
Release date
2016/08
Temporal coverage
2003/01/21 - 2003/10/24
Data provider
NIES
Email: cgerdb_admin(at)nies.go.jp
DOI
File format
Data volume
32.2 MiB
Version
V3.0 (Last updated: 2016/08)
Language
English
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Data Set

Parameters
O3, HNO3, NO2, N2O, CH4, H2O, ClONO2, N2O5, CFC-11, CFC-12
Observation period
From January 2003 to October 2003 (Ended)
Spatial coverage
[Northern Hemisphere] Latitude: 57°～ 71°, Longitude: -180°～ 180°
[Southern Hemisphere] Latitude: -64°～ -88°, Longitude: -180°～ 180°
Vertical: ～10 km - 70 km
Time resolution
1 profile per ~100 min in each hemisphere
Spatial resolution
Latitude: Depends on season
Longitude: ～25 degrees
Vertical: 1.3-2.9 km at tangent heights of 15-55 km
Precision
Depends on species and altitude
Measurement method
ILAS-II was a satellite-borne solar-occultation sensor on board the satellite ADEOS-II. ILAS-II consisted of four spectrometers: an infrared spectrometer (between 6.21 µm to 11.76 µm); a mid-infrared spectrometer (between 3.0 µm and 5.7 µm); a high-resolution infrared spectrometer (between 12.78 µm and 12.85 µm); and a visible spectrometer (between 753 nm and 784 nm).
Calculation method
Vertical profiles of gases were retrieved by applying both the onion-peeling method and the non-linear least-squares fitting method. Simultaneous gas and aerosol retrievals in the infrared using aerosol physical modeling are applied in the Version 3.0 algorithm, as was first applied in the ILAS version 7.0 algorithm.
Keywords
[GCMD_Platform]
Earth observation satellites > ADEOS > ADEOS-II
[GCMD_Science]
Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry > Trace gases/Trace species
[Free keywords]
Stratosphere, Ozone, O3, Nitric Acid, HNO3, Nitrogen Dioxide, NO2, Nitrous Oxide, N2O, Methane, CH4, Water Vapor, H2O, Chlorine Nitrate, ClONO2, Dinitrogen Pentoxide, N2O5, CFC-11, CFC-12, CC BY
Update history
[2016/08]
All Version 3.0 data are released. V3.0.
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References

Readme file
Reference
Oshchepkov, S., Y. Sasano, T. Yokota, H. Nakajima, N. Uemura, N. Saitoh, T. Sugita, and H. Matsuda (2006), ILAS data processing for stratospheric gas and aerosol retrievals with aerosol physical modeling: Methodology and validation of gas retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02307, doi:10.1029/2005JD006543.
Yokota, T. H. Nakajima, T. Sugita, H. Kawasaki, M. Horikawa, H. Matsuda, N. Uemura, H. Kanzawa, H. Kobayashi, and Y. Sasano (2006), Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II (ILAS-II) Version 1.4 algorithm for retrieval of gas and aerosol profiles in the stratosphere (unpublished manuscript).
Other publications
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Sugita, T., H. Nakajima, and T. Yokota (2018), Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II (ILAS-II), Version 3.0, Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES, DOI:10.17595/20180628.004. (Reference date*: YYYY/MM/DD)
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