UFTIR: Time Series of Upper Free Troposphere observations from a European ground-based FTIR network

Updated 2003-06-23

The main specific objectives of UFTIR are: (1) To revise and homogenise the analyses of available experimental data for providing consistent time series of distinct tropospheric and stratospheric abundances of the target gases using new inversion algorithms. A common strategy for retrieval and characterisation of the vertical distributions of the target gases from FTIR ground-based measurements will be established. (2) To provide quantitative trends and associated uncertainties for the target gases over about the last decade, as a function of latitude throughout Western Europe, focusing on the troposphere. (3) To integrate the data in model assessments of the evolutions of tropospheric abundances. The measured burden and changes of the tropospheric gases will be compared with 3D model simulations, in order to help developing the latter, assist in explaining potential causes for the observed changes and to assess the consistencies between the trends at the surface to the free troposphere and lowermost stratosphere, and the agreement with known evolutions of emissions. UFTIR will make the community prepared to deliver tropospheric data for validation and synergistic exploitation of new satellite experiments like ENVISAT.

Time frame

Status
Ongoing
Project time span
2003 - 2005
Data collection
2003 - 2005
Data processing
not specified
Data reporting
2003 - 2005

Contact information

Contact person
Martine M.H.J. De Mazière
Address
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) Ringlaan 3 B-1180 Brussels Belgium
Phone
+32 2 373 03 63
Fax
+32 2 374 84 23
Email
eb.amo@enitram
Other project contacts
(1) polymnia@oma.be (2) European Commission, Research DG, 5th Framework Programme on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled
Climate change effects
Media sampled/studied/modelled
Air/aerosol

Geography

Regions studied
Climate change effects
Climate change effects
Climate change effects
Climate change effects
Climate change effects
Climate change effects
Climate change effects
Other areas
Western Europe

Data availability

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
No

Methods & Procedures

Not specified

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
Yes
Other institutes involved in the project

http://www.nilu.no/uftir/partners.html

Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?

(1) Links with the NDSC/WMO: Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change/World Meteorological Organisation.

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