MIPAS Residual Spectra

These are the monthly mean residual spectra for the nominal set of microwindows extracted from the ESA Off Line data.

Residual spectra are the difference between spectra measured by the instrument and spectra generated by the retrieval forward model at the final iteration.

Ideally, individual spectra should contain only random measurement noise but in practice a number of features are present indicating systematic errors either in the forward model or the instrument characterisation.

Since typically tens of thousands of residual spectra are averaged in each plot, any remaining noise component should be insignificant.

Month PT H2O O3 HNO3 CH4 N2O NO2
July 2002 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 13 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
August 2002 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 8 12 1 3 6 13
September 2002 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 1 7 13 21 24 25 26 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
October 2002 1 2 4 6 37 38 39 1 2 7 10 11 21 22 1 13 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 6 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
November 2002 1 2 4 6 37 38 39 1 2 7 10 11 21 22 24 1 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
December 2002 1 2 4 6 37 38 39 1 2 7 10 11 21 22 24 1 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
January 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
February 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
March 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
April 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 8 12 1 3 6 13
May 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
June 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
July 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
August 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
September 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
October 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
November 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
December 2003 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
January 2004 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 24 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
February 2004 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 1 7 13 14 21 24 25 26 30 1 3 6 22 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 7 8 12 1 3 6 13
March 2004 1 2 4 6 17 37 38 39 1 2 7 8 10 11 21 22 1 13 14 21 24 25 26 29 30 1 3 6 23 24 27 1 5 12 17 21 1 4 8 12 1 3 6 13