ENVISAT VALIDATION CAMPAIGN AT IMAA – CNR

摘要

In the period July 2002 - March 2004, at IMAA-CNR, Tito Scalo (Potenza, 40°36’N, 15°44’E, 820 m above sea level) we have performed more than 500 hours of Raman lidar measurements and 50 radiosonde launches in coincidence with ENVISAT overpasses. This campaign has been carried out by using a Raman lidar system, able to perform measurements of water vapor mixing ratio vertical profiles with high vertical and temporal resolution, and a radiosounding station for PTU measurements. These data have been used to validate MIPAS water vapor and temperature products and GOMOS water vapor products. In this paper, we present the results of the validation campaign performed at IMAA, only for MIPAS and GOMOS data processed with MIPAS software version 4.61 and with GOMOS IPF 5.00 respectively.