A010
Assessing Atmospheric Instrumental Uncertainty and Measurement Consistency

Session ID#: 76153

Session Description:
Fundamental to the value of large scale field studies and long-duration monitoring networks is the careful and quantitative assessment of uncertainties for all involved instruments used to measure atmosphere and its constituents. Part of this type of assessment includes evaluations of consistency between different instruments for the same parameter, which is required by  the analyses using these data. For example, air quality assessments rely on demonstrated consistency among similar measurements across monitoring networks as an ongoing effort. To date, the atmospheric community is still struggling to understand and resolve instrumental discrepancies in some measurements.  This session solicits presentations on the methods and outcomes of measurement comparisons and assessments of instrument uncertainties from both field studies and laboratory measurements of atmospheric parameters and chemical and aerosol species in air, using in-situ, off-line, and remote sensing approaches.
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1990 Uncertainty [INFORMATICS]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Gao Chen, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Atmospheric Measurements, Uncertainty, Measurement/Instrument Comparison
Conveners:  Russell Long, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Joshua Peter Schwarz, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Xiaofeng Huang, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China and Atmospheric Measurements, Uncertainty, Measurement/Instrument Comparison
Primary Liaison:  Gao Chen, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Atmospheric Measurements, Uncertainty, Measurement/Instrument Comparison
 
Remote Sensing Measurements of Trans-Atlantic Dust Transport and Deposition: Consistency and Inconsistency among Satellites (Invited) (494681)
Hongbin Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Characterization and investigation of a chemical modulation reactor (CMR) for the measurement of atmospheric concentrations of hydroxyl radicals with a laser-induced fluorescence instrument (496499)
Changmin Cho1, Andreas Hofzumahaus2, Hendrik Fuchs3, Frank Holland4, Justin Shenolikar5, John Crowley6, Franz Rohrer2, Hans-Peter Dorn7, Astrid Kiendler-Scharr2, Andreas Wahner2 and Anna Novelli2, (1)Forschungeszentrum Jülich GmbH, Insitute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Jülich, Germany, (2)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Jülich, Germany, (3)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Jülich, Germany, (4)Forschungszentrum Juelich GMBH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Juelich, Germany, (5)Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (6)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (7)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Juelich, Germany
 
Validation of IASI satellite ammonia observations using in-situ profiles (503529)
Xuehui Guo1, Rui Wang1, Lieven Clarisse2, Martin Van Damme2, Simon Whitburn2, Pierre-Francois Coheur2 and Mark A Zondlo1, (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Spectroscopie de l’Atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Brussels, Belgium
 
A Solution for the Tower Effect at the CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE) (507668)
Bryan E Fabbri1, Gregory L Schuster2, Fred M Denn1, Jay J Madigan1 and Robert F Arduini1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Measurement Consistency and Uncertainty in Quantifying Carbonaceous Aerosol in Urban PM2.5 Samples Using Thermal-Optical Reflectance Analysis (508707)
Xiaolu Zhang1, Krystyna Trzepla1, Warren H White1 and Nicole P Hyslop2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, CA, United States
 
Investigating Possible Biases of Filter Measurements of Submicron Inorganic Salts onboard the NASA DC-8 (519436)
Doug A Day, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin Nault, University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, Jack E Dibb, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Karl D Froyd, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Eric M Scheuer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Jose L Jimenez, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Overview of the First In‐situ Intercomparison of Aerosol Photoacoustic Spectrometers (521301)
Chris Zangmeister and James Radney, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
 
The airborne Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP): Instrument characterisation, calibration, and assessment of measurement sensitivity and uncertainties (533468)
Mareike Kenntner1, Andreas Fix1, Matthias Jirousek2, Franz Schreier3, Jian Xu4 and Markus Rapp1, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR), The Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center (DLR), The Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
 
Climate Correction of Radiosonde Temperature Biases in the Lower Stratosphere using GPS RO data (540134)
Shu-Peng Ho, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Xinjia Zhou, NOAA STAR, College Park, MD, United States
 
Quantifying Uncertainties in the Satellite Measured Climate Temperature Trends (542109)
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States
 
The development of a consistent multi-decadal nitrogen dioxide data record from hyperspectral UV/VIS satellite sensors (552748)
Bradford L Fisher1, Lok N Lamsal2, Sergey V Marchenko3, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov4, Joanna Joiner5, Luke Oman4, Wenhan Qin3, Eun-Su Yang3 and Alexander P Vasilkov1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)SSAI, Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Recent Improvements and Intercomparison of a Laser-Induced Fluorescence Instrument for Measuring SO2 (553149)
Pamela Rickly, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Andrew W Rollins, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, Lu Xu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, John D Crounse, California Institute of Technology - CalTech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Paul O Wennberg, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Evaluating the transition to new X-ray fluorescence instruments using archived samples (555914)
Nicole P Hyslop1, Krystyna Trzepla1, Jason Giacomo2, Nicholas James Spada1 and Warren H White1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, United States
 
Verifying Multi-Decadal Consistency of Light-Absorption Measurements in a Filter-Based Haze Monitoring Network (562786)
Warren H White1, Jason Giacomo2, Nicole P Hyslop3, Lindsay M Kline4 and Krystyna Trzepla1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, United States, (3)University of California, Davis, CA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Air Quality Research Center, Davis, CA, United States
 
Comparison analysis of greenhouse gas observation data at Minamitorishima GAW Global station (570707)
Teruo Kawasaki1, Mayu Yamamoto1, Masashi Yoshida1, Kazuyuki Saito1, Kentaro Kozumi1, Genta Umezawa1, Kazuya Yukita1, Shigeharu Nishida1, Shohei Sato1, Mio Akamatsu1, Atsuya Kinoshita1, Yousuke Sawa1, Toshinobu Machida2, Shohei Murayama3, Kazuhiro Tsuboi4, Kentaro Ishijima4 and Hidekazu Matsueda4, (1)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, (2)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba city, Ibaraki, Japan, (3)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
 
A New Method to Homogenize Atmospheric Radiosonde Daily Temperature Data (599647)
Chunlue Zhou, State University of New York at Albany, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Junhong Wang, University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States and Aiguo Dai, University at Albany, SUNY, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
 
Assessment of Airborne Instrument Uncertainty via Measurement Comparisons and Precision Analysis (606422)
Morgan L Silverman1, Ronald C Cohen2, Glenn M Wolfe3, Jose L Jimenez4, Pedro Campuzano Jost5, Benjamin Nault6, Luke D Ziemba7, Michael Shook7 and Gao Chen8, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (2)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
 
An Assessment of Uncertainty in Atmospheric State Measurements on Airborne Platforms (Invited) (610312)
Joseph Ryan Bennett1, John D W Barrick2, Morgan L Silverman3, Steven Schill1 and David Van Gilst1, (1)National Suborbital Research Center, Palmdale, CA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
 
Validation of satellite formaldehyde (HCHO) retrievals using observations from 12 aircraft campaigns (614018)
Lei Zhu, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Caroline R Nowlan and Kelly Chance, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Interpreting Temporal Changes in OMC/OC Ratios – An Alternative to OC-LAC Thermal Evolution Measurements (614932)
William C. Malm, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Bret A Schichtel, National Park Service, Air Resources Division, Denver, CO, United States, Jenny L Hand, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Anthony J Prenni, National Park Service Lakewood, Lakewood, CO, United States
 
A new airborne instrument for measuring nitric oxide using single photon laser induced fluorescence (615571)
Andrew W Rollins1, Pamela Rickly1, Ru-Shan Gao1, Ilann Bourgeois2, Jeff Peischl1 and Thomas B Ryerson1, (1)NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)CU/CIRES - NOAA/CSD, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Sensitivity of Retrieved Trace Gas Concentrations on Database Selection (618989)
Eleanor Waxman1, Kevin Cossel1, Fabrizio Giorgetta1, Jacob Friedlein2, Ian Coddington1 and Nathan Newbury1, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Indirect Validation of the OMPS Limb Profile Ozone Retrievals (623124)
Margaret Bruckner, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, R. Bradley Pierce, NOAA/NESDIS, Center for Satellite Application and Research, Madison, WI, United States and Allen Lenzen, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Evaluating the Consistency of All Submicron Aerosol Mass Measurements (Total and Speciated) in the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) (625183)
Jose L Jimenez1, Hongyu Guo2, Pedro Campuzano Jost3, Benjamin Nault4, Doug A Day5, Christina Williamson6, Agnieszka Kupc7, Charles A Brock8, Gregory P Schill9, Karl D Froyd9, Eric M Scheuer10, Jack E Dibb11, Joseph M Katich12 and Joshua Peter Schwarz13, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Dept. of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (7)University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria, (8)NOAA, Boulder, United States, (9)NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (11)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (12)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
NEON’s Approach to Consistency in Measurement for 30 years (632589)
Janae Lynn Csavina1, Joshua A Roberti1 and Cove Sturtevant2, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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