Project Leaders: Justus Notholt, Roland Neuber
The topic of this project was to investigate the spatial structure of the Arctic atmosphere during a ship cruise in the Fram strait and around Spitsbergen. We participated in the Polarstern cruises PS106 and PS107, where we operated the mobile FTIR facility MOFTIR. MOFTIR consisted of two FTIR instruments, ABS-FTIR operated in solar absorption geometry, EM-FTIR operated in emission geometry. At the same time measurements with a similar suite of instruments were performed at the AWIPEV research base, Spitsbergen. The ship–borne observation are interpreted in close connection with the measurements obtained in Ny–Ålesund in the project E02.
Hypothesis:
The latitudinal variability of water vapour, aerosols, and thin clouds from mid–latitudes to the high Arctic impacts on Arctic climate changes.
In order to test the hypothesis, we will address and contribute to the following central questions exemplarily with the first ship cruise in phase I:
- How large is the latitudinal variability of aerosols, water vapour and thin clouds between the North Atlantic ice edge and the inner Arctic?
- How can the effect of the spatial atmospheric fine structure be parameterized using the time series obtained by the standard measurement stations and the satellite measurements?
- With the help of models, how does the spatial fine structure of the Arctic atmosphere affect the radiative budget of the Arctic atmosphere in summer?
Achievements phase I
In B06, measurements to investigate the spatial structure of the Arctic atmosphere were collected during two ship expeditions and the ground-based, long-term CONCORD observations at Ny-Ålesund. A retrieval scheme to derive cloud properties from thermal emission infrared spectrometer measurements, including detailed radiative transfer simulations, was developed and applied, which will be used in E02. Three papers report about the results in detail (Barthlott et al., 2017; Kulla and Ritter, 2019; Ritter et al., 2018). The project prepared important input for E02, however, it was found that the original objective of latitudinal variability is more appropriately characterised via long-term satellite data and, therefore, will be pursued in B05. Project B06 will not be continued.
Role within (AC)³
Project Posters
| Phase II Evaluation poster 2019 | Phase I Evaluation poster 2015 | |
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Project Members
Publications
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2022
Richter, P., Palm, M., Weinzierl, C., Griesche, H., Rowe, P. M., and Notholt, J. , June 2022: A Dataset of Microphysical Cloud Parameters, Retrieved from Fourier-transform Infrared (FTIR) Emission Spectra Measured in Arctic Summer 2017. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14(6):2767–2784, doi:10.5194/essd-14-2767-2022
2021
Nakoudi, K., Ritter, C., and Stachlewska, I. S. , November 2021: Properties of Cirrus Clouds over the European Arctic (Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard). Remote Sens., 13(22):4555, doi:10.3390/rs13224555
2020
2019
Ehrlich, A., Wendisch, M., Lüpkes, C., Buschmann, M., Bozem, H., Chechin, D., Clemen, H., Dupuy, R., Eppers, O., Hartmann, J., Herber, A., Jäkel, E., Järvinen, E., Jourdan, O., Kästner, U., Kliesch, L., Köllner, F., Mech, M., Mertes, S., Neuber, R., Ruiz-Donoso, E., Schnaiter, M., Schneider, J., Stapf, J., and Zanatta, M. , November 2019: A Comprehensive in Situ and Remote Sensing Data Set from the Arctic CLoud Observations Using Airborne Measurements during Polar Day (ACLOUD) Campaign. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11(4):1853–1881, doi:10.5194/essd-11-1853-2019
Schranz, F., Tschanz, B., Rüfenacht, R., Hocke, K., Palm, M., and Kämpfer, N. , August 2019: Investigation of Arctic Middle-Atmospheric Dynamics Using 3 Years of H\textsubscript2 O and O\textsubscript3 Measurements from Microwave Radiometers at Ny-Ålesund. Atmospheric Chem. Phys., 19(15):9927–9947, doi:10.5194/acp-19-9927-2019
Wendisch, M., Macke, A., Ehrlich, A., Lüpkes, C., Mech, M., Chechin, D., Dethloff, K., Velasco, C. B., Bozem, H., Brückner, M., Clemen, H., Crewell, S., Donth, T., Dupuy, R., Ebell, K., Egerer, U., Engelmann, R., Engler, C., Eppers, O., Gehrmann, M., Gong, X., Gottschalk, M., Gourbeyre, C., Griesche, H., Hartmann, J., Hartmann, M., Heinold, B., Herber, A., Herrmann, H., Heygster, G., Hoor, P., Jafariserajehlou, S., Jäkel, E., Järvinen, E., Jourdan, O., Kästner, U., Kecorius, S., Knudsen, E. M., Köllner, F., Kretzschmar, J., Lelli, L., Leroy, D., Maturilli, M., Mei, L., Mertes, S., Mioche, G., Neuber, R., Nicolaus, M., Nomokonova, T., Notholt, J., Palm, M., Van Pinxteren, M., Quaas, J., Richter, P., Ruiz-Donoso, E., Schäfer, M., Schmieder, K., Schnaiter, M., Schneider, J., Schwarzenböck, A., Seifert, P., Shupe, M. D., Siebert, H., Spreen, G., Stapf, J., Stratmann, F., Vogl, T., Welti, A., Wex, H., Wiedensohler, A., Zanatta, M., and Zeppenfeld, S. , May 2019: The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multiplatform Observations to Unravel the Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 100(5):841–871, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0072.1
Kulla, B. and Ritter, C. , March 2019: Water Vapor Calibration: Using a Raman Lidar and Radiosoundings to Obtain Highly Resolved Water Vapor Profiles. Remote Sens., 11(6):616, doi:10.3390/rs11060616
2018
2017
Taquet, N., Meza Hernández, I., Stremme, W., Bezanilla, A., Grutter, M., Campion, R., Palm, M., and Boulesteix, T. , July 2017: Continuous Measurements of SiF 4 and SO 2 by Thermal Emission Spectroscopy: Insight from a 6-Month Survey at the Popocatépetl Volcano. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 341:255–268, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.05.009
Buschmann, M., Deutscher, N. M., Palm, M., Warneke, T., Weinzierl, C., and Notholt, J. , July 2017: The Arctic Seasonal Cycle of Total Column CO\textsubscript2 and CH\textsubscript4 from Ground-Based Solar and Lunar FTIR Absorption Spectrometry. Atmospheric Meas. Tech., 10(7):2397–2411, doi:10.5194/amt-10-2397-2017
Buchholz, R. R., Deeter, M. N., Worden, H. M., Gille, J., Edwards, D. P., Hannigan, J. W., Jones, N. B., Paton-Walsh, C., Griffith, D. W. T., Smale, D., Robinson, J., Strong, K., Conway, S., Sussmann, R., Hase, F., Blumenstock, T., Mahieu, E., and Langerock, B. , June 2017: Validation of MOPITT Carbon Monoxide Using Ground-Based Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer Data from NDACC. Atmospheric Meas. Tech., 10(5):1927–1956, doi:10.5194/amt-10-1927-2017
Wendisch, M., Brückner, M., Burrows, J., Crewell, S., Dethloff, K., Ebell, K., Lüpkes, C., Macke, A., Notholt, J., Quaas, J., Rinke, A., and Tegen, I. , January 2017: Understanding Causes and Effects of Rapid Warming in the Arctic. Eos, doi:10.1029/2017EO064803
Barthlott, S., Schneider, M., Hase, F., Blumenstock, T., Kiel, M., Dubravica, D., García, O. E., Sepúlveda, E., Mengistu Tsidu, G., Takele Kenea, S., Grutter, M., Plaza-Medina, E. F., Stremme, W., Strong, K., Weaver, D., Palm, M., Warneke, T., Notholt, J., Mahieu, E., Servais, C., Jones, N., Griffith, D. W. T., Smale, D., and Robinson, J. , January 2017: Tropospheric Water Vapour Isotopologue Data (H\textsubscript2\textsuperscript16 O, H\textsubscript2\textsuperscript18 O, and HD\textsuperscript16 O) as Obtained from NDACC/FTIR Solar Absorption Spectra. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9(1):15–29, doi:10.5194/essd-9-15-2017
