Journal
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 15-29Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/essd-9-15-2017
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- AIF/NSRIT
- CFI
- CFCAS
- CSA
- EC
- GOC-IPY
- NSERC
- NSTP
- OIT
- PCSP
- ORF
- Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven
- EU project NORS
- DFG [SFB/TR 172]
- A3C PRODEX programme - Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO, Brussels)
- Swiss GAW-CH programme of MeteoSwiss (Zurich)
- FRS-FNRS
- Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad from Spain [CGL2012-37505]
- UNAM-DGAPA [IN109914, IN112216]
- Conacyt [239618, 249374]
- International Bureau of BMBF [01DN12064]
- Australian Research Council [DP110103118]
- European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC [256961]
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We report on the ground-based FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) tropospheric water vapour isotopologue remote sensing data that have been recently made available via the database of NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change; ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ndacc/MUSICA/)and via doi:10.5281/zenodo.48902. Currently, data are available for 12 globally distributed stations. They have been centrally retrieved and quality-filtered in the framework of the MUSICA project (MUlti-platform remote Sensing of Isotopologues for investigating the Cycle of Atmospheric water). We explain particularities of retrieving the water vapour isotopologue state (vertical distribution of (H2O)-O-16, (H2O)-O-18, and (HDO)-O-16) and reveal the need for a new metadata template for archiving FTIR isotopologue data. We describe the format of different data components and give recommendations for correct data usage. Data are provided as two data types. The first type is best-suited for tropospheric water vapour distribution studies disregarding different isotopologues (comparison with radiosonde data, analyses of water vapour variability and trends, etc.). The second type is needed for analysing moisture pathways by means of {H2O, delta D}-pair distributions.
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