Expression of Commitment
Note: this is a template form, which provides an example of the format and the type
information to be submitted by all permanent members of all COST Actions in the
ESSEM Domain
to COST Action ES-0604
Title: “Water Vapour in the Climate System (WaVaCS)”
1./ Individual’s Name:
Dr. Mark Weber, Dr. Alexei Rozanov
2./ Organization Name & Address:
Institute of Environmental Physics
University of Bremen FB1
PO Box 330 440
D-28334 Bremen
Germany
email: weber@uni-bremen.de
alex@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de
3./ Contribution:
a./ Role in Action:
Mention if you are member of the action, member of MC, chair / vice-chair
b./ Parts of the scientific programme where contributions will be made:
Mention the Deliverables you wish to contribute from the Memorandum of Understanding
WG1
-existing and emerging measurement techniques of water vapour
-cross-validation of various data sets from different observational methods of water
vapour
4./ Deliverables:
Mention the results you will share with the Action
Global datasets of water vapor profiles from the tropopause up to about 23 km altitude
derived from SCIAMACHY limb emission starting in 2002
5./ Timetable:
Provide the timing of your activities with respect to the Action's timetable
3 years
6./ Manpower approximately dedicated to the Action:
Give the approximate manpower dedicated to the activities included in the action
3 man year (Ph.D. student)
7./ Assurance:
Mention the reasons why the proposed work will be done (sources of funding, availability of data /
tools, etc.)
funds are available for one Ph.D. student
8./ Foreseen collaboration:
comparison to MIPAS and ground data
9./ Previous experience:
Individual’s Name:
Give a brief resume of your experiences relevant for the COST action
-trace gas retrievals from SCIAMACHY and radiation transfer
-connection between stratospheric WV and global circulation in a changing
climate
10./ Publications: (list relevant publications since 2002)
Publications Mark Weber
Bramstedt, K., K.--U. Eichmann, M. Weber, V. Rozanov, and J. P. Burrows, 2002:
GOME ozone profiles: A global validation with HALOE measurements, Adv.
Space Res. 29, 1637-1642.
Müller, M.D., A. Kaifel, M. Weber, J.P. Burrows, A new method for retrieving total
ozone from GOME data, Appl. Opt. 42, 5051—5058, 2002.
Weber M., K.-U. Eichmann, F. Wittrock, K. Bramstedt, L. Hild, A. Richter and J.P.
Burrows and R. Müller, The cold Arctic winter 1995/96 as observed by the
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment GOME and HALOE: Tropospheric wave
activity and chemical ozone loss, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc 128, 1293-1320,
2002.
Bremer, H., M. von König, A. Kleinböhl, H. Küllmann, K. Künzi, K. Bramstedt, J. P.
Burrows, K.-U. Eichmann, M. Weber, A. P. H. Goede, 2002: Ozone depletion
observed by ASUR during the Arctic winter 1999/2000, J. Geophys. Res. 107,
8277, doi:10.1029/2001JD000546, 2002.
Bramstedt, K., J. Gleason, D. Loyola, W. Thomas, A. Bracher, M. Weber, and J. P.
Burrows, Comparison of total ozone from the satellite instruments GOME and
TOMS with measurements from the Dobson network 1996-2000, Atmos.
Chem. Phys. 3, 1409-1419, 2003.
Eichmann, K.-U., M. Weber, K. Bramstedt, V. Rozanov, and J.P. Burrows, Ozone
depletion in the NH winter/spring 1999/2000 as measured by GOME on ERS-2,
2002: J. Geophys. Res. 107, 8280, doi:10.1029/2001JD001148, 2002.
Hansen, G., K. Bramstedt, V. Rozanov, M. Weber, and J.P. Burrows, 2003:
Validation of GOME ozone profiles by means of the ALOMAR ozone lidar, Ann.
Geophysicae, 21, 1879-1886, 2003.
Müller, M.D., A.K. Kaifel, M. Weber, S. Tellmann, J.P. Burrows, D. Loyola, Ozone
profile retrieval from GOME data using a neural network approach (NNORSY),
J. Geophys. Res. 108, 4497, doi:10.1029/2002JD002784, 2003.
Sinnhuber, B.-M., M. Weber, A. Amankwah, and J.P. Burrows, Total ozone during
the unusual Antarctic winter of 2002, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1850,
doi:10.1029/2002GL016798, 2003.
Weber, M., S. Dhomse, F. Wittrock, A. Richter, B.-M. Sinnhuber, and J.P. Burrows,
2003: Dynamical control of NH and SH winter/spring total ozone from GOME
observations
in
1995--2002,
Geophys.
Res.
Lett.
30,
1853,
doi:10.1029/2002GL016799, 2003.
de Beek, R., M. Weber, V.V. Rozanov, A. Rozanov, A. Richter, and J.P. Burrows,
Trace gas column retrieval - An error study for GOME-2, Adv. Space Res. 34,
727-733,2004.
Tellmann, S., V.V. Rozanov, M. Weber, and J.P. Burrows, 2004: Improvements in the
tropical ozone profile retrieval from GOME UV/vis nadir spectra, Adv. Space
Res. 34, 739-743.
Coldewey-Egbers, M., M. Weber, M. Buchwitz, and J.P. Burrows, Application of a
modified DOAS method for total ozone retrieval from GOME data at high polar
latitudes, Adv. Space Res. 34, 749-753, 2004.
Bracher, A., M. Weber, K. Bramstedt, S. Tellmann, J. P. Burrows, Long-term global
measurements of ozone profiles by GOME validated with SAGE II considering
atmospheric
dynamics,
J.
Geophys.
Res.
109,
D20308,
doi
10.1029/2004JD004677, 2004.
Lamsal, L.N., M. Weber, S. Tellmann, and J. P. Burrows, Ozone column classified
climatology of ozone and temperature profiles based on ozonesonde and
satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D20304, doi:10.1029/2004JD004680,
2004.
Viereck, R.A., L. E. Floyd, P. C. Crane, T. N. Woods, B. G. Knapp, G. Rottman, M.
Weber, L. C. Puga, and M. T. DeLand, A composite Mg II index spanning from
1978 to 2003, Space Weather 2, S10005, doi:10.1029/2004SW000084, 2004.
Bracher, A., L.N. Lamsal, M. Weber, K. Bramstedt, M. Coldewey-Egbers, J. P.
Burrows, Global satellite validation of SCIAMACHY O3 columns with GOME
WFDOAS, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 5, 2357-2368, 2005.
Coldewey-Egbers, M., M. Weber, L. N. Lamsal, R. de Beek, M. Buchwitz, J. P.
Burrows, Total ozone retrieval from GOME UV spectral data using the
weighting function DOAS approach, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 5, 5015-5025, 2005.
Richter, A., F. Wittrock, M. Weber, S. Beirle, S. Kühl, U. Platt, T. Wagner, W. WilmsGrabe, and J. P. Burrows, GOME observations of stratospheric trace gas
distributions during the splitting vortex event in the Antarctic winter 2002 Part I:
Measurements, J. Atmos. Sci. 62, 778-785, 2005.
von Savigny, C., A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, K.-U. Eichmann, S. Noel, V. V.
Rozanov, B.-M. Sinnhuber, M. Weber, J. P. Burrows, J. Kaiser, The ozone hole
break-up in September 2002 as seen by SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT, J. Atmos.
Sci., 62, 721-734, 2005.
Skupin, J., S. Noel, M. W. Wuttke. M. Gottwald, H. Bovensmann, M. Weber, J. P.
Burrows, SCIAMACHY solar irradiance observation in the spectral range from
240 to 2380nm, Adv. Space Res. 35, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.036, 370–375,
2005.
Skupin, J., M. Weber, S. Noel, H. Bovensmann, und J.P. Burrows, GOME and
SCIAMACHY solar spectral irradiance and Mg II solar activity proxy indicator,
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 76, 1038-1041, 2005.
Weber, M., L. N. Lamsal, M. Coldewey-Egbers, K. Bramstedt, J. P. Burrows, Pole-topole validation of GOME WFDOAS total ozone with groundbased data, Atmos.
Chem. Phys. 5, 1341-1355, 2005
Dhomse, S., M. Weber, J. Burrows, I. Wohltmann, and M. Rex, On the possible
cause of recent increases in NH total ozone from a statistical analysis of
satellite data from 1979 to 2003, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 1165-1180, 2006.
Dhomse, S., M. Weber, and J. Burrows, The relationship between tropospheric wave
forcing and tropical stratospheric water vapor, Atmos. Cem. Phys. Disc., 6,
9563-9581, 2006.
Newman, P.A., and M. Rex, Polar Ozone: Past and present, Chapter 4, WMO
Ozone Assessment, (Conributor : M. Weber).
Bracher, A., H. Bovensmann, K. Bramstedt, J. P. Burrows T. von Clarmann, K.-U.
Eichmann, H. Fischer, B. Funke, S. Gil-Lopez, N. Glatthor, U. Grabowski, M.
Höpfner, M. Kaufmann, S. Kellmann, M. Kiefer, M. E. Koukouli, A. Linden, M.
Lopez-Puertas, G. Mengistu Tsidu, M. Milz, S. Noel, G. Rohen, A. Rozanov, V.
V. Rozanov, C. von Savigny, M. Sinnhuber, J. Skupin, T. Steck, G. P.Stiller, D.Y. Wang, M. Weber, and M. W. Wuttke, Cross Validation of O3 and NO2
measured by the atmospheric ENVISAT instruments GOMOS, MIPAS, and
SCIAMACHY, Adv. Space Res., 2006.
Kokhanovsky, A., B. Mayer, V.V. Rozanov, K. Wapler, L. Lamsal, M. Weber, J.P.
Burrows, U. Schumann, Satellite ozone retrieval under broken cloud conditions:
an error analysis based on Monte-Carlo simulations, IEEE Transactions
Geosci. Remote Sens., 45, 187-194, 2007.
Lamsal, L.N., M. Weber, G. Labow, and J.P. Burrows, Influence of ozone and
temperature climatology on the accuracy of satellite total ozone retrieval, J.
Geophys. Res., 112, doi:10.1029/2005JD006865, 2007.
Meijer, Y., D.P.J. Swart, F. Baier, P.K. Barthia, G.E. Bodeker, S. Casadio, K.
Chance, F. del Frate, T. Ebertseder, L.E. Flynn, S. Godin-Beekmann, G.
Hansen, O.P. Hasekamp, A. Kaifel, H.M. Kelder, B.J. Kerridge, J.-C. Lambert,
J. Landgraf, B. Latter, X. Liu, I.S. McDermid, M.D. Müller, Y. Pachepsky, V.
Rozanov, R. Siddans, S. Tellmann, R.J. van der A, R.F. van Oss, M. Weber,
and C. Zehner, Evaluation of GOME ozone profiles from nine different
algorithms, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D21306, doi:10.1029/2005JD006778, 2006.
Harris, N. R. P., E. Kyrö, J. Staehelin, D. Brunner, S-B. Andersen, S. GodinBeekmann, S. Dhomse, P. Hadjinicolaou, G. Hansen, I. Isaksen, A. Jrrar, A.
Karpetchko, R. Kivi, B. Knudsen, P. Krizan, J. Lastovicka, J. Maeder, Y.
Orsolini, J.A. Pyle, M. Rex, K. Vanicek, M. Weber, I. Wohltmann, P. Zanis, and
C. Zerefos, Ozone trends at northern mid- and high latitudes, Annales
Geophysicae, accepted, 2007.
Lamsal, L.N., M. Weber, G. Labow, and J.P. Burrows, Influence of ozone and
temperature climatology on the accuracy of satellite total ozone retrieval, J.
Geophys. Res., 112, doi:10.1029/2005JD006865, 2007.
Publications Alexei Rozanov
Rozanov, A., V. Rozanov and J. P. Burrows, Evaluation of the combined differentialintegral approach for limb viewing geometry, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 29(11),
1843-1848, 2002.
Rozanov A., V. Rozanov, M. Buchwitz, A. Kokhanovsky and J.P. Burrows,
SCIATRAN 2.0 - A new radiative transfer model for geophysical applications in
the 175-2400 nm spectral region, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 36(5), 1015-1019,
doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.012, 2005.
Rozanov A., H. Bovensmann, A. Bracher, S. Hrechanyy, V. Rozanov, M. Sinnhuber,
F. Stroh and J.P. Burrows, NO2 and BrO vertical profile retrieval from
SCIAMACHY limb measurements: Sensitivity studies, Adv. Space Res., Vol.
36(5), 846-854, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.013, 2005.
Rozanov, A., K.-U. Eichmann, C. von Savigny, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, A.
von Bargen, A. Doicu, S. Hilgers, S. Godin-Beekmann, T. Leblanc, and I. S.
McDermid, Comparison of the inversion algorithms applied to the ozone
vertical profile retrieval from SCIAMACHY limb measurements, Atmos. Chem.
Phys., 7, 4763-4779, 2007.
Amekudzi, L. K., B.-M. Sinnhuber, N. V. Sheode, J. Meyer, A. Rozanov, L. N.
Lamsal, H. Bovensmann, and J. P. Burrows, Retrieval of stratospheric NO3
vertical profiles from SCIAMACHY lunar occultation measurement over the
Antarctic, J. Geophys. Res., VOL. 110, D20304, doi:10.1029/2004JD005748,
2005
Amekudzi, L. K., A. Bracher, J. Meyer, A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, and J. P.
Burrows, Lunar occultation with SCIAMACHY: First retrieval results, Adv.
Space Res., Volume 36, 906-914, 2005.
Bracher, A. , Sinnhuber, M., Rozanov, A. and Burrows, J. P. Using a photochemical
model for the validation of NO2 satellite measurements at different solar zenith
angles, Atm. Chem. Phys., Vol. 5, 393-408, 2005.
Bracher, A., H. Bovensmann, K. Bramstedt, J.P. Burrows, T. von Clarmann,
K.-U. Eichmann, H. Fischer, B. Funke, S. Gil-Lopez, N. Glatthor, U. Grabowski,
M. Hoepfner, M. Kaufmann, S. Kellmann, M. Kiefer, M.E. Koukouli, A. Linden,
M. Lopez-Puertas, G. Mengistu Tsidu, M. Milz, S. Noel, G. Rohen, A. Rozanov,
V.V. Rozanov, C. von Savigny, M. Sinnhuber, J. Skupin, T. Steck, G.P. Stiller,
D.-Y. Wang, M. Weber and M.W. Wuttke, Cross comparisons of O3 and NO2
measured by the atmospheric ENVISAT instruments GOMOS, MIPAS, and
SCIAMACHY, Adv. Space Res., 36, 855-867, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.04.005,
2005.
Bruns. M, S. A. Buehler, J. P. Burrows, K.-P. Heue, U. Platt, I. Pundt, A. Richter, A.
Rozanov, T. Wagner, P. Wang, Applied Optics, Volume 43, Issue 22, 44154426, 2004
Bruns, M., S. A. Buehler, J. P. Burrows, A. Richter, A. Rozanov, P. Wang, K.-P.
Heue, U. Platt, I. Pundt, and T. Wagner, NO2 Profle Retrieval using airborne
multi axis UV-visible skylight absorption measurements over central Europe,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 3049-3058, 2006
de Beek, R., M. Weber, V. V. Rozanov, A. Rozanov, A. Richter and J. P. Burrows,
Trace gas column retrieval - an error assessment study for GOME-2, Adv.
Space Res., Volume 34(4), 727-733, 2004.
Butz, A., H. Bösch, C. Camy-Peyret, M. Chipperfield, M. Dorf, G. Dufour, K. Grunow,
P. Jeseck, S. Kühl, S. Payan, I. Pepin, J. Pukite, A. Rozanov, C. von Savigny,
C. Sioris, T. Wagner, F. Weidner, and K. Pfeilsticker, Inter-comparison of
stratospheric O3 and NO2 abundances retrieved from balloon borne direct sun
observations and Envisat/SCIAMACHY limb measurements, Atmos. Chem.
Phys., 6, 1293-1314, 2006
Doicu, A., S. Hilgers, A. von Bargen, A. Rozanov, K.-U. Eichmann, C. von Savigny
and J.P. Burrows, Information operator approach and iterative regularization
methods for atmospheric remote sensing, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy
and Radiative Transfer, 103(2), 340-350, 2007.
Eichmann, K.-U., J. W. Kaiser, C. von Savigny, A. Rozanov, V. V. Rozanov,
H. Bovensmann, M. von Koenig and J. P. Burrows, SCIAMACHY limb
measurements in the UV/Vis spectral region: first results, Adv. Space Res.,
Vol. 34(4), 775-779, 2004.
Friess, U., P. S. Monks, J. J. Remedios, A. Rozanov, R. Sinreich, T. Wagner, and U.
Platt, MAX-DOAS O4 measurements: A new technique to derive information
on atmospheric aerosols - Retrieval of aerosol properties, J. Geophys. Res.,
111, D14203, doi:10.1029/2005JD006618, 2006
Hendrick, F., M. Van Roozendael, A. Kylling, A. Petritoli, A. Rozanov, S. Sanghavi,
R. Schofield, C. von Friedeburg, T. Wagner, F. Wittrock, D. Fonteyn, and M. De
Maziere, Intercomparison exercise between different radiative transfer models
used for the interpretation of ground-based zenith-sky and multi-axis DOAS
observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 93-108, 2006.
Jacobi, H.-W., L. Kaleschke, A. Richter, A. Rozanov, J.P. Burrows, Observation of a
fast ozone loss in the marginal ice zone of the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res.,
Vol. 111, No. D15, D15309, 10.1029/2005JD006715, 12 August 2006
Kaiser, J.W., K.-U. Eichmann, S. Noel, M.W. Wuttke, J. Skupin, C. von Savigny, A.V.
Rozanov, V.V. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, J.P. Burrows, "SCIAMACHY limb
spectra", Adv. Space Res., Vol. 34(4), 715 - 720, 2004.
Loughman R. P., E. Griffioen, L. Oikarinen, O. V. Postylyakov, A. Rozanov, D. E.
Flittner, D. F. Rault, Comparison of radiative transfer models for limb-viewing
scattered sunlight measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D06303,
doi:10.1029/2003JD003854, 2004.
Meyer, J., A. Schlesier, A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann and J. Burrows, Towards O3
and NO2 vertical profile retrieval from SCIAMACHY solar occultation
measurements: first results, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 34(4), 744-748, 2004.
Meyer, J., A. Bracher, A. Rozanov, A. C. Schlesier, H. Bovensmann, and J. P.
Burrows, Solar occultation with SCIAMACHY: algorithm description and first
validation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Vol. 5, 1589--1604, 2005.
Mueller, R.W., H. Bovensmann, J. W. Kaiser, A. Richter, A. Rozanov, F. Wittrock and
J. P. Burrows, Consistent interpretation of ground based and GOME BrO slant
column data, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 29(11), 1655-1660, 2002.
Rozanov V.V., and A. V. Rozanov, Generalized form of the direct and adjoint
radiative transfer equations, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and
Radiative Transfer, 104(1), 155-170, 2007.
Rozanov, V.V., and A. V. Rozanov, Relationship between different approaches to
derive weighting functions related to atmospheric remote sensing problems,
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 105(2), 217-242,
2007.
von Savigny, C., A. Kokhanovsky, H. Bovensmann, K.-U. Eichmann, J. Kaiser, S.
Noel, A. V. Rozanov, J. Skupin and J. P. Burrows, NLC detection andparticle
size determination: first results from SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT, Adv. Space
Res., Vol. 34(4), 851-856, 2004.
von Savigny, C., A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, K.-U. Eichmann, S. Noel, V.
Rozanov, B.-M. Sinnhuber, M. Weber, J. P. Burrows and J. W. Kaiser. The
Ozone Hole Breakup in September 2002 as Seen by SCIAMACHY on
ENVISAT,Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 62(3), pp. 721-734, 2005.
Sheode, N., B.-M. Sinnhuber, A. Rozanov, J. P. Burrows, Towards a climatology of
stratospheric bromine monoxide from SCIAMACHY limb observations, Atmos.
Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 6431-6466, 2006
Sierk, B., A. Richter, A. Rozanov, Ch. von Savigny, A. M. Schmoltner, M. Buchwitz,
H. Bovensmann and J. P. Burrows, Retrieval and Monitoring of Atmospheric
Trace Gas Concentrations in Nadir and Limb Geometry Using the Space-Borne
SCIAMACHY instrument, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI:
10.1007/s10661-005-9049-9, 2006
Sinnhuber, B.-M., A. Rozanov, N. Sheode, O. T. Afe, A. Richter, M. Sinnhuber, F.
Wittrock, J. P. Burrows, G. P. Stiller, T. von Clarmann, and A. Linden, Global
observations of stratospheric bromine monoxide from SCIAMACHY, Geophys.
Res. Lett., Vol. 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023839, 2005
Wagner, T., J. P. Burrows, T. Deutschmann, B. Dix, C. von Friedeburg, U. Friess, F.
Hendrick, K.-P. Heue, H. Irie, H. Iwabuchi, Y. Kanaya, J. Keller, C. A.
McLinden, H. Oetjen, E. Palazzi, A. Petritoli, U. Platt, O. Postylyakov, J. Pukite,
A. Richter, M. van Roozendael, A. Rozanov, V. Rozanov, R. Sinreich, S.
Sanghavi, and F. Wittrock, Comparison of box-air-mass-factors and radiances
for Multiple-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS)
geometries calculated from different UV/visible radiative transfer models,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 1809-1833, 2007
Wittrock, F. , Oetjen, H., Richter, A., Fietkau, S., Medeke, T., Rozanov, A. and
Burrows, J. P.MAX-DOAS measurements of atmospheric trace gases in NyAlesund - Radiative transfer studies and their application, Atm. Chem.Phys.,
Vol. 4, 955-966, 2004.