Description
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This data set contains simulated infrared limb emission spectra in the presence of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) for the air-borne CRyogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere - New Frontiers (CRISTA-NF). The atmospheric background conditions for the simulations represent the Arctic winter 2009/2010, in which PSCs were measured during the RECONCILE campaign. While the PSCs of 0.5, 1, 2, 4, and 8 km thickness are located between 13 and 30 km altitude, the spectra are available for altitudes between 10 km and the flight altitude of 18.4 km with 100 m vertical spacing. Two spectral ranges, from 785 to 840 cm-1 and 940 to 965 cm-1 are provided. The simulated PSC scenarios comprise pure ice, NAT, and STS scenarios, described by mono-modal log-normal particle size distributions, and two mixed scenarios STS/NAT and small NAT/large NAT, both described by bi-modal log-normal particle size distributions. For STS PSCs we followed the setup in Spang et al. (2012) and simulated three mixtures with wt% H2SO4/HNO of 2/48, 25/25, and 48/2 for five volume densities between 0.1 and 10 µm3/cm3 and four median radii between 0.1 and 1 µm with 0.3 µm in addition. For ice PSCs we extended the range to smaller volume densities, covering the range from 0.1 to 100 µm3/cm3 in 7 steps, and 6 median radii between 1 and 10 µm. Different to Spang et al. (2012) we derived the NAT particle size distribution from the HNO3 volume mixing ratio of 1 to 15 ppbv in 1 ppbv steps and median radii between 0.5 and 8 µm, where we added 6 and 8 µm and used a finer sampling of 0.5 µm between 0.5 and 4 µm. For the mixed STS/NAT scenario we combined STS with wt% H2SO4/HNO of 2/48, volume densities of 5 and 10 µm3/cm3, and median radii of 0.1, 0.3 ,1 µm with NAT volume mixing ratios of 5, 10, 15 ppbv, and median radii between 0.5 and 3.5 µm. For the bi-modal NAT simulation the data set contains simulations for 10 ppbv where the partitioning between the first and the second mode is 3/7, 5/5, and 7/3 ppbv. The median radii of the first mode were kept smaller (0.5 to 2.5 µm) than in the second mode (1 to 8 µm). (2020-11-18)
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Related Publication
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Kalicinsky, C., Griessbach, S., and Spang, R.: A new method to detect and classify polar stratospheric nitric acid trihydrate clouds derived from radiative transfer simulations and its first application to airborne infrared limb emission observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 1893–1915, 2021.
doi: 10.5194/amt-14-1893-2021
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Notes
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https://datapub.fz-juelich.de/slcs/cloud-spectra/psc-crista-nf/
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