Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) observations of biomass burning products in the stratosphere from Canadian forest fires in August 2017

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Properties and evolution of biomass burning organic aerosol from Canadian boreal forest fires

Airborne measurements of biomass burning organic aerosol (BBOA) from boreal forest fires reveal highly contrasting properties for plumes of different ages. These measurements, performed using an Aerodyne Research Inc. compact time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (C-ToF-AMS) during the BORTAS (quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Airc...

Deriving convective structure from microwave sounder observations

Microwave sounders have been used for many years to measure the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere, i.e. the three-dimensional distribution of temperature, water vapor and liquid water, both from space, from aircraft and from the ground. Currently, the most advanced satellite based microwave sounding system is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A and-B) operating on a number of weath...

The photochemistry of carbon monoxide in the stratosphere and mesosphere evaluated from observations by the Microwave Limb Sounder on the Aura satellite

[1] The photochemical production and loss rates for carbon monoxide (CO) in the stratosphere and mesosphere are evaluated using measurements from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) and the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment‐Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE‐FTS). The distributions of reactive trace gases involved in the photochemistry of CO, including OH, CH4, O( D), Cl, as well as temperatu...

Stratospheric and mesospheric HO2 observations from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder

This study introduces stratospheric and mesospheric hydroperoxyl radical (HO2) estimates from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) using an offline retrieval (i.e. run separately from the standard MLS algorithm). This new data set provides two daily zonal averages, one during daytime from 10 to 0.0032 hPa (using day-minus-night differences between 10 and 1 hPa to ameliorate systematic biases) ...