Sciamachy Validation with Amaxdoas No2 and O3 Measurements
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The AMAXDOAS instrument on board the DLRFalcon is an airborne multi-axis UV/visible spectrometer which was designed specifically for the validation of products from the SCIAMACHY instrument on ENVISAT. The AMAXDOAS instrument was flown during two large SCIAMACHY validation campaigns in September 2002 and February and March 2003. In this paper we will briefly introduce the campaign, then show the NO2 and O3 vertical columns measured by the AMAXDOAS along the flight track. We have compared the AMAXDOAS measurements with GOME data and in most cases, very good agreement was found. The results are used to validate the SCIAMACHY nadir NO2 and O3 columns for the first time.
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