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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Earth Syst Sci Data. 2016 Sep 28;8(2):461–490. doi: 10.5194/essd-8-461-2016

Table 1.

Overview of satellite data included in SWOOSH.

Instrument Data version Start date End date H2O vertical resolution (km) O3 vertical resolution (km) H2O vertical range O3 vertical range
SAGE II 7 (O3)
7 (H2O)
Oct 1984
Jan 1986
Aug 2005
Aug 2005
1a 1a 0.5–50 kmb 0.5–70 kmb
UARS HALOE 19 Oct 1991 Nov 2005 2 2.3 316–0.002 hPa 584–0.0004 hPa
UARS MLS 5 (O3)
6 (H2O)
Oct 1991 (H2O)
Sep 1991 (O3)
Apr 1993
Nov 2005
3–4c 3.5–5d 100–0.17 hPa 100–0.22 hPa
SAGE III 4 Feb 2002 Nov 2005 1.5 1 0.5–100 kmb
8–49 kme
384–0.45 hPae
0.5–100 kmb
1–82 kme
905–0.007 hPae
Aura MLS 4.2 Aug 2004 present 2.5–3.5 2.5–3.5 316–0.002 hPa 261–0.02 hPa
a

FWHM of triangular smoothing applied to balloon data for intercomparisons.

b

Retrieval grid.

c

3.5 km FWHM used for UARS MLS WV smoothing.

d

4 km FWHM used for UARS MLS O3 smoothing.

e

Range of valid values from raw data, before any screening.