Technical Note: New ground-based FTIR measurements at Ile de La Réunion: observations, error analysis, and comparisons with independent data

Ground-based high spectral resolution Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) solar absorption spectroscopy is a powerful remote sensing technique to obtain information on the total column abundances and on the vertical distribution of various constituents in the atmosphere. This work presents results from two FTIR measurement campaigns in 2002 and 2004, held at Ile de La Réunion (21° S, 55° E). These campaigns represent the first FTIR observations carried out at a southern (sub)tropical site. They serve the initiation of regular, long-term FTIR monitoring at this site in the near future. To demonstrate the capabilities of the FTIR measurements at this location for tropospheric and stratospheric monitoring, a detailed report is given on the retrieval strategy, information content and corresponding full error budget evaluation for ozone (O3), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon monoxide (CO), ethane (C2H6), hydrogen chloride (HCl), hydrogen fluoride (HF) and nitric acid (HNO3) total and partial column retrievals. Moreover, we have made a thorough comparison of the capabilities at sea level altitude (St.-Denis) and at 2200 m a.s.l. (Maïdo). It is proved that the performances of the technique are such that the atmospheric variability can be observed, at both locations and in distinct altitude layers. Comparisons with literature and with correlative data from ozone sonde and satellite (i.e., ACE-FTS, HALOE and MOPITT) measurements are given to confirm the results. Despite the short time series available at present, we have been able to detect the seasonal variation of CO in the biomass burning season, as well as the impact of particular biomass burning events in Africa and Madagascar on the atmospheric composition above Ile de La Réunion. We also show that differential measurements between St.-Denis and Maïdo provide useful information about the concentrations in the boundary layer.Peer reviewe

Ground-based FTIR measurements of NH3 total columns and comparison with IASI data

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The First Results From the New TCCON Station at Réunion Island

International audienceIn September of 2011, measurements for the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) began at Réunion Island (Ile de La Réunion, 55°E, 20°S). The island is located East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, it undergoes strong influences from biomass burning in Africa and Madagascar during the months September to December. Since 2002, we have been performing remote-sensing measurements for the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) using a high-resolution Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer at the island, and now it is also home to the fourth operational TCCON observatory in the Southern Hemisphere. The TCCON observatory is located on the campus of the Université de La Réunion in St. Denis, next to the ocean. The station is operated remotely from the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy in Brussels, with technical support from the Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des cyclones at La Réunion. The observatory houses a high-resolution Bruker 125/HR Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer (operating in the near-infrared for the TCCON), and a home-built solar tracker. The same infrastructure is also used for measurements for the NDACC (operating in the mid-infrared). Our remote sensing measurements are supplemented by in-situ measurements with a PICARRO system at the same site. In this presentation, we show the first results of the TCCON measurements of the total columns of CO2 and CH4 from Réunion Island

TCCON data from Réunion Island (RE), Release GGG2014.R0

These data are now obsolete and should be replaced by the most recent data: https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.reunion01.R1 The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) is a network of ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers that record direct solar absorption spectra of the atmosphere in the near-infrared. From these spectra, accurate and precise column-averaged abundances of atmospheric constituents including CO2, CH4, N2O, HF, CO, H2O, and HDO, are retrieved. This data set contains observations from the TCCON station on Réunion Island.Contact person: Martine De Maziere [email protected]

TCCON data from Réunion Island (RE), Release GGG2014.R1

The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) is a network of ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers that record direct solar absorption spectra of the atmosphere in the near-infrared. From these spectra, accurate and precise column-averaged abundances of atmospheric constituents including CO2, CH4, N2O, HF, CO, H2O, and HDO, are retrieved. This data set contains observations from the TCCON station on Réunion Island.Contact person: Martine De Maziere [email protected]

TCCON data from Réunion Island (RE), Release GGG2020.R0

The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) is a network of ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers that record direct solar absorption spectra of the atmosphere in the near-infrared. From these spectra, accurate and precise column-averaged abundances of atmospheric constituents including CO2, CH4, N2O, HF, CO, H2O, and HDO, are retrieved. This is the GGG2020 data release of observations from the TCCON station at Reunion Island (Ile de La Reunion), FranceContact person: Martine De Mazière [email protected] available via S3 at https://renc.osn.xsede.org/ini210004tommorrell/10.14291/tccon.ggg2020.reunion01.R0/</p>README.txt 0.0 GB <a role="button" class="ui compact mini button" href="https://renc.osn.xsede.org/ini210004tommorrell/10.14291/tccon.ggg2020.reunion01.R0/README.txt" > <i class="download icon"></i> Download </a></p> ra20150301_20200718.public.qc.nc 0.03 GB <a role="button" class="ui compact mini button" href="https://renc.osn.xsede.org/ini210004tommorrell/10.14291/tccon.ggg2020.reunion01.R0/ra20150301_20200718.public.qc.nc" > <i class="download icon"></i> Download </a></p> LICENSE.txt 0.0 GB <a role="button" class="ui compact mini button" href="https://renc.osn.xsede.org/ini210004tommorrell/10.14291/tccon.ggg2020.reunion01.R0/LICENSE.txt" > <i class="download icon"></i> Download </a></p&gt

FTIR time-series of biomass burning products (HCN, C2H6, C2H2, CH3OH, and HCOOH) at Reunion Island (21° S, 55° E) and comparisons with model data

Reunion Island (21° S, 55° E), situated in the Indian Ocean at about 800 km east of Madagascar, is appropriately located to monitor the outflow of biomass burning pollution from Southern Africa and Madagascar, in the case of short-lived compounds, and from other Southern Hemispheric landmasses such as South America, in the case of longer-lived species. Ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) solar absorption observations are sensitive to a large number of biomass burning products. We present in this work the FTIR retrieval strategies, suitable for very humid sites such as Reunion Island, for hydrogen cyanide (HCN), ethane (C2H6), acetylene (C2H2), methanol (CH3OH), and formic acid (HCOOH). We provide their total columns time-series obtained from the measurements during August-October 2004, May-October 2007, and May 2009-December 2010. We show that biomass burning explains a large part of the observed seasonal and interannual variability of the chemical species. The correlations between the daily mean total columns of each of the species and those of CO, also measured with our FTIR spectrometer at Reunion Island, are very good from August to November (° 0.86). This allows us to derive, for that period, the following enhancement ratios with respect to CO: 0.0047, 0.0078, 0.0020, 0.012, and 0.0046 for HCN, C2H 6, C2H2, CH3OH, and HCOOH, respectively. The HCN ground-based data are compared to the chemical transport model GEOS-Chem, while the data for the other species are compared to the IMAGESv2 model. We show that using the HCN/CO ratio derived from our measurements (0.0047) in GEOS-Chem reduces the underestimation of the modeled HCN columns compared with the FTIR measurements. The comparisons between IMAGESv2 and the long-lived species C2H6 and C2H2 indicate that the biomass burning emissions used in the model (from the GFED3 inventory) are probably underestimated in the late September-October period for all years of measurements, and especially in 2004. The comparisons with the short-lived species, CH3OH and HCOOH, with lifetimes of around 5 days, suggest that the emission underestimation in late September-October 2004, occurs more specifically in the Southeastern Africa-Madagascar region. The very good correlation of CH3OH and HCOOH with CO suggests that, despite the dominance of the biogenic source of these compounds on the global scale, biomass burning is their major source at Reunion Island between August and November. © Author(s) 2012. CC Attribution 3.0 License.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Ground-based FTIR measurements at Ile de La Réunion: Observations, error analysis and comparisons with satellite data.

Ground-based Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a powerful remote sensing technique to obtain information on the total column abundances and on the vertical distribution of various constituents in the atmosphere. Many of these species are essential for the investigation of important atmospheric phenomena, such as the overall greenhouse effect or the stratospheric ozone decrease and recovery. In the frame of the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), such observations have been made since many years at several measurement stations for the worldwide long-term monitoring of the atmospheric composition. In this work, we present the results from two short-term FTIR measurement campaigns in 2002 and 2004 at the Ile de La Réunion (21°S, 55°E), a complementary NDACC site in the subtropics, in the Indian Ocean. All spectra were recorded in solar absorption mode. The results discussed here concern the direct greenhouse gases methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and ozone (O3), and the indirect greenhouse gases carbon monoxide (CO) and ethane (C2H6), as well as hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and stratospheric hydrogen chloride (HCl), hydrogen fluoride (HF) and nitric acid (HNO3). For the latter species (HCN, HCl, HF and HNO3), we show time series of total column amounts from the surface up to 60 km. For CO, CH4, N2O and O3, it is possible to derive additionally independent information on a few partial columns; these time series are discussed as well. A complete error budget of the retrieval products is given. Temporary mutually correlated enhancements of CO, C2H6and HCN have been observed. They have been traced back to biomass burning events in southern Africa and Madagascar using the FLEXPART model. Comparisons of our retrievals with correlative data from satellite experiments, such as ACE and MOPITT, and with available ozone soundings, show generally good agreements between the different data sets

Ground-based FTIR and MAX-DOAS observations of formaldehyde at Réunion Island and comparisons with satellite and model data

Abstract. Formaldehyde (HCHO) columns have been retrieved from ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) campaign measurements in 2004 and 2007 and from UV-Visible MAX-DOAS measurements in 2004–2005 at the NDACC site of Réunion Island (21° S, 55° E). The FTIR and MAX-DOAS daily mean formaldehyde total columns are intercompared in their common measurement period, from August to October 2004. The ground-based data are also compared to correlative SCIAMACHY data. The comparisons account for the vertical sensitivity differences of the data sets, by including their respective averaging kernels. Complete error budgets are also presented. The FTIR and MAX-DOAS daily mean total columns agree very well: no significant bias is observed and the standard deviation of the comparisons is only 8%. Both FTIR and MAX-DOAS HCHO total columns are in good agreement with SCIAMACHY values in the 2004–2005 period, with standard deviations of 21% and 31%, respectively. The same seasonal cycle is observed by the different instruments, with a minimum in austral winter and a maximum in February–March. The FTIR and MAX-DOAS data are confronted with HCHO columns calculated by a global CTM, the IMAGES model. The model underestimates the HCHO columns by 23–29% in comparison with FTIR, and by 15% in comparison with DOAS. This bias might have multiple causes, including an underestimation of OH concentrations in the model (as indicated by a sensitivity study using prescribed OH fields) and/or an underestimated contribution of large-scale transport of HCHO precursors from Madagascar. The latter hypothesis is comforted by the large observed day-to-day variability of HCHO columns, and by the observation that the peak values of FTIR columns can often be associated with free tropospheric transport patterns from source regions over Madagascar to Réunion Island, according to simulations performed with the Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe