GOME-2 vertical ozone profile quality assessment by satellite-to-satellite comparison

In the framework of EUMETSAT's AC SAF the Finnish Meteorological Institute participate in the Quality Assessment of the GOME-2 Ozone Profile product by comparing GOME-2 ozone profiles against the ozone profiles retrieved from limb-viewing satellite instruments.

These pages show resulting graphs when the GOME-2 offline high-resolution vertical ozone profiles are compared with ozone profiles from the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb Profile (OMPS LP) instrument onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The OMPS LP version 2.5 daily ozone product has separate retrievals for ultraviolet (UV) and visible (VIS) wavelengths. See the release notes for further information. The OMPS LP daily ozone profile data from center slit is used.

The delay to perform the most recent daily comparison is set to six days to ensure that new OMPS ozone daily data is available.

The preceding monthly results for Metop-A and Metop-B are available from January 2017 onwards, past Metop-C results are added later. Comparison results can be found here.

The latest day comparison results

The results are shown for GOME-2/Metop-B and GOME-2/Metop-C individually. Metop-A was deorbited in November 2021.

Metop-B

Data:
The map of collocated pixels The mean profiles in five latitude zones
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Figure 1. Collocation criteria: observations within 12 hours and distance between them is less than 200 km on WGS 84 ellipsoid. Figure 2. Legend box shows the number of collocations at each latitude zone. Middle and right: The solid curves are for the means of OMPS LP profiles smoothed vertically with GOME-2 averaging kernels and dashed curves without smoothing.
The absolute and relative difference of daily means in five latitude zones
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Figure 3. Left: GOME-2B - VIS OMPS. Right: (GOME-2B - VIS OMPS) / VIS OMPS. VIS OMPS ozone profiles are smoothed with GOME-2 averaging kernels (avk). Figure 4. Left: GOME-2B - UV OMPS. Right: (GOME-2B - UV OMPS) / UV OMPS. UV OMPS ozone profiles are smoothed with GOME-2 averaging kernels (avk).

Metop-C

Data:
The map of collocated pixels The mean profiles in five latitude zones
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Figure 1. Collocation criteria: observations within 12 hours and distance between them is less than 200 km on WGS 84 ellipsoid. Figure 2. Legend box shows the number of collocations at each latitude zone. Middle and right: The solid curves are for the means of OMPS LP profiles smoothed vertically with GOME-2 averaging kernels and dashed curves without smoothing.
The absolute and relative difference of daily means in five latitude zones
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Figure 3. Left: GOME-2C - VIS OMPS. Right: (GOME-2C - VIS OMPS) / VIS OMPS. For comparison the VIS OMPS ozone profiles are smoothed with GOME-2 averaging kernels (avk). Figure 4. Left: GOME-2C - UV OMPS. Right: (GOME-2C - UV OMPS) / UV OMPS. For comparison the UV OMPS ozone profiles are smoothed with GOME-2 averaging kernels (avk).

Acknowledgement: OMPS LP version 2.5 ozone profile data are produced by the LP processing team (DOI: 10.5067/X1Q9VA07QDS7).