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There are several tropospheric data fields available from the U.S. Tropospheric constituent species are limited primarily to ozone and water vapour abundance. Global satellite fields such as cloud optical thickness/fraction, aerosols, surface UV, etc., are important for the analysis of the troposphere which includes climate change applications and the effects on the photochemistry of constituents in models. The first section gives a summary of the data fields most used, together with some current developments at NASA in deriving tropospheric ozone profiles. The upcoming EOS Aura tropospheric constituent measurements are then discussed.
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Ziemke, J. (2004). Tropospheric Data from the United States. In: Borrell, P., Borrell, P.M., Burrows, J.P., Platt, U. (eds) Sounding the Troposphere from Space. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18875-6_8
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