TY - JOUR
T1 - Tropospheric water vapour isotopologue data (H216O, H218O, and HD16O) as obtained from NDACC/FTIR solar absorption spectra
AU - Barthlott, Sabine
AU - Schneider, Matthias
AU - Hase, Frank
AU - Blumenstock, Thomas
AU - Kiel, Matthäus
AU - Dubravica, Darko
AU - García, Omaira E.
AU - Sepúlveda, Eliezer
AU - Mengistu Tsidu, Gizaw
AU - Takele Kenea, Samuel
AU - Grutter, Michel
AU - Plaza-Medina, Eddy F.
AU - Stremme, Wolfgang
AU - Strong, Kim
AU - Weaver, Dan
AU - Palm, Mathias
AU - Warneke, Thorsten
AU - Notholt, Justus
AU - Mahieu, Emmanuel
AU - Servais, Christian
AU - Jones, Nicholas
AU - Griffith, David W.T.
AU - Smale, Dan
AU - Robinson, John
PY - 2017/1/20
Y1 - 2017/1/20
N2 - We report on the ground-based FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) tropospheric water vapour isotopologue remote sensing data that have been recently made available via the database of NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change; ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ndacc/MUSICA/) and via doi.10.5281/zenodo.48902. Currently, data are available for 12 globally distributed stations. They have been centrally retrieved and quality-filtered in the framework of the MUSICA project (MUlti-platform remote Sensing of Isotopologues for investigating the Cycle of Atmospheric water). We explain particularities of retrieving the water vapour isotopologue state (vertical distribution of H216O, H218O, and HD16O) and reveal the need for a new metadata template for archiving FTIR isotopologue data. We describe the format of different data components and give recommendations for correct data usage. Data are provided as two data types. The first type is best-suited for tropospheric water vapour distribution studies disregarding different isotopologues (comparison with radiosonde data, analyses of water vapour variability and trends, etc.). The second type is needed for analysing moisture pathways by means of {H2O, δD}-pair distributions.
AB - We report on the ground-based FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) tropospheric water vapour isotopologue remote sensing data that have been recently made available via the database of NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change; ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ndacc/MUSICA/) and via doi.10.5281/zenodo.48902. Currently, data are available for 12 globally distributed stations. They have been centrally retrieved and quality-filtered in the framework of the MUSICA project (MUlti-platform remote Sensing of Isotopologues for investigating the Cycle of Atmospheric water). We explain particularities of retrieving the water vapour isotopologue state (vertical distribution of H216O, H218O, and HD16O) and reveal the need for a new metadata template for archiving FTIR isotopologue data. We describe the format of different data components and give recommendations for correct data usage. Data are provided as two data types. The first type is best-suited for tropospheric water vapour distribution studies disregarding different isotopologues (comparison with radiosonde data, analyses of water vapour variability and trends, etc.). The second type is needed for analysing moisture pathways by means of {H2O, δD}-pair distributions.
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U2 - 10.5194/essd-9-15-2017
DO - 10.5194/essd-9-15-2017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009999826
VL - 9
SP - 15
EP - 29
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
SN - 1866-3508
IS - 1
ER -