Ns. Pougatchev et al., GROUND-BASED INFRARED SOLAR SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS OF CARBON-MONOXIDE DURING 1994 MEASUREMENT OF AIR-POLLUTION FROM SPACE-FLIGHTS, J GEO RES-A, 103(D15), 1998, pp. 19317-19325
Results of the comparison of carbon monoxide ground-based infrared sol
ar spectroscopic measurements with data obtained during 1994 Measureme
nt of Air Pollution From Space (MAPS) flights are presented. Spectrosc
opic measurements were performed correlatively with April and October
MAPS flights by nine research groups from Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ja
pan, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States. Characterization of t
he techniques and error analysis were performed. The role of the CO a
priori profile used in the retrieval was estimated. In most cases an a
greement between spectroscopic and MAPS data is within estimated MAPS
accuracy of +/-10%.