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A selection of MAESTRO related publications.

Jeffery, P. S., Walker, K. A., Sioris, C. E., Boone, C. D., Degenstein, D., Manney, G. L., McElroy, C. T., Millán, L., Plummer, D. A., Ryan, N. J., Sheese, P. E., and Zou, J.: Water vapour and ozone in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere: global climatologies from three Canadian limb-viewing instruments, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 14709–14734, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14709-2022, 2022.

Hegglin, M. I., Tegtmeier, S., Anderson, J., Bourassa, A. E., Brohede, S., Degenstein, D., Froidevaux, L., Funke, B., Gille, J., Kasai, Y., Kyrölä, E. T., Lumpe, J., Murtagh, D., Neu, J. L., Pérot, K., Remsberg, E. E., Rozanov, A., Toohey, M., Urban, J., von Clarmann, T., Walker, K. A., Wang, H.-J., Arosio, C., Damadeo, R., Fuller, R. A., Lingenfelser, G., McLinden, C., Pendlebury, D., Roth, C., Ryan, N. J., Sioris, C., Smith, L., and Weigel, K.: Overview and update of the SPARC Data Initiative: comparison of stratospheric composition measurements from satellite limb sounders, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1855–1903, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1855-2021, 2021.

Noël, S., Bramstedt, K., Rozanov, A., Malinina, E., Bovensmann, H., and Burrows, J. P.: Stratospheric aerosol extinction profiles from SCIAMACHY solar occultation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 5643–5666, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5643-2020, 2020.

Tikhomirov, A. B., Farhani, G., McCullough, E.M., Sica, R. J. , Fogal, P. F., Leblanc, T., Drummond, J. R.: Ozone Measurements Using the Refurbished Eureka Stratospheric Differential Absorption Lidar, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 45:3-4, 509-529, DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2019.1651195, 2019.

Weaver, D., Strong, K., Walker, K. A., Sioris, C., Schneider, M., McElroy, C. T., Vömel, H., Sommer, M., Weigel, K., Rozanov, A., Burrows, J. P., Read, W. G., Fishbein, E., and Stiller, G.: Comparison of ground-based and satellite measurements of water vapour vertical profiles over Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 4039–4063, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4039-2019, 2019.

Bognar, K., X. Zhao and K. Strong et al., Updated validation of ACE and OSIRIS ozone and NO2 measurements in the Arctic using ground-based instruments at Eureka, Canada, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, https://doi. org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.07.014, 2019.

Khosrawi, F., Lossow, S., Stiller, G. P., Rosenlof, K. H., Urban, J., Burrows, J. P., Damadeo, R. P., Eriksson, P., García-Comas, M., Gille, J. C., Kasai, Y., Kiefer, M., Nedoluha, G. E., Noël, S., Raspollini, P., Read, W. G., Rozanov, A., Sioris, C. E., Walker, K. A., and Weigel, K.: The SPARC water vapour assessment II: comparison of stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour time series observed from satellites, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 4435-4463, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4435-2018, 2018.

Lossow, S., Khosrawi, F., Nedoluha, G. E., Azam, F., Bramstedt, K., Burrows, John. P., Dinelli, B. M., Eriksson, P., Espy, P. J., García-Comas, M., Gille, J. C., Kiefer, M., Noël, S., Raspollini, P., Read, W. G., Rosenlof, K. H., Rozanov, A., Sioris, C. E., Stiller, G. P., Walker, K. A., and Weigel, K.: The SPARC water vapour assessment II: comparison of annual, semi-annual and quasi-biennial variations in stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour observed from satellites, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 1111-1137, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1111-2017, 2017.

Bernath, P.F.: The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 186, 3-16, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.04.006, 2017.

Sheese, P. E., Walker, K. A., Boone, C. D., McLinden, C. A., Bernath, P. F., Bourassa, A. E., Burrows, J. P., Degenstein, D. A., Funke, B., Fussen, D., Manney, G. L., McElroy, C. T., Murtagh, D., Randall, C. E., Raspollini, P., Rozanov, A., Russell III, J. M., Suzuki, M., Shiotani, M., Urban, J., von Clarmann, T., and Zawodny, J. M.: Validation of ACE-FTS version 3.5 NOy species profiles using correlative satellite measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5781-5810, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5781-2016, 2016.

Robert, C. É., Bingen, C., Vanhellemont, F., Mateshvili, N., Dekemper, E., Tétard, C., Fussen, D., Bourassa, A., and Zehner, C.: AerGOM, an improved algorithm for stratospheric aerosol extinction retrieval from GOMOS observations – Part 2: Intercomparisons, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4701-4718, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4701-2016, 2016.

Hubert, D., Lambert, J.-C., Verhoelst, T., Granville, J., Keppens, A., Baray, J.-L., Bourassa, A. E., Cortesi, U., Degenstein, D. A., Froidevaux, L., Godin-Beekmann, S., Hoppel, K. W., Johnson, B. J., Kyrölä, E., Leblanc, T., Lichtenberg, G., Marchand, M., McElroy, C. T., Murtagh, D., Nakane, H., Portafaix, T., Querel, R., Russell III, J. M., Salvador, J., Smit, H. G. J., Stebel, K., Steinbrecht, W., Strawbridge, K. B., Stübi, R., Swart, D. P. J., Taha, G., Tarasick, D. W., Thompson, A. M., Urban, J., van Gijsel, J. A. E., Van Malderen, R., von der Gathen, P., Walker, K. A., Wolfram, E., and Zawodny, J. M.: Ground-based assessment of the bias and long-term stability of 14 limb and occultation ozone profile data records, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2497-2534, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016, 2016.

Sioris, C. E., Zou, J., Plummer, D. A., Boone, C. D., McElroy, C. T., Sheese, P. E., Moeini, O., and Bernath, P. F.: Upper tropospheric water vapour variability at high latitudes – Part 1: Influence of the annular modes, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3265-3278, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3265-2016, 2016.

Sioris, C. E., Zou, J., McElroy, C. T., Boone, C. D., Sheese, P. E., and Bernath, P. F.: Water vapour variability in the high-latitude upper troposphere – Part 2: Impact of volcanic eruptions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 2207-2219, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2207-2016, 2016.

Olsen, K. S., Toon, G. C., Boone, C. D., and Strong, K.: New temperature and pressure retrieval algorithm for high-resolution infrared solar occultation spectroscopy: analysis and validation against ACE-FTS and COSMIC, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1063-1082, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1063-2016, 2016.

McElroy, C. T.: UV-Visible-NIR Spectrophotometer on Canadian Science Satellite SCISAT, Optical Payloads for Space Missions, S.‐E. Qian (Ed.), 615-637, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118945179.ch28 , 2015.

Hassler, B., Petropavlovskikh, I., Staehelin, J., August, T., Bhartia, P. K., Clerbaux, C., Degenstein, D., Mazière, M. D., Dinelli, B. M., Dudhia, A., Dufour, G., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Godin-Beekmann, S., Granville, J., Harris, N. R. P., Hoppel, K., Hubert, D., Kasai, Y., Kurylo, M. J., Kyrölä, E., Lambert, J.-C., Levelt, P. F., McElroy, C. T., McPeters, R. D., Munro, R., Nakajima, H., Parrish, A., Raspollini, P., Remsberg, E. E., Rosenlof, K. H., Rozanov, A., Sano, T., Sasano, Y., Shiotani, M., Smit, H. G. J., Stiller, G., Tamminen, J., Tarasick, D. W., Urban, J., van der A, R. J., Veefkind, J. P., Vigouroux, C., von Clarmann, T., von Savigny, C., Walker, K. A., Weber, M., Wild, J., and Zawodny, J. M.: Past changes in the vertical distribution of ozone – Part 1: Measurement techniques, uncertainties and availability, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 1395-1427, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1395-2014, 2014.

S. Tegtmeier, M. I. Hegglin, J. Anderson, A. Bourassa, S. Brohede, D. Degenstein, L. Froidevaux, R. Fuller, B. Funke, J. Gille, A. Jones, Y. Kasai, K. Krüger, E. Kyrölä, G. Lingenfelser, J. Lumpe, B. Nardi, J. Neu, D. Pendlebury, E. Remsberg, A. Rozanov, L. Smith, M. Toohey, J. Urban, T. von Clarmann, K. A. Walker, R. H. J. Wang,: SPARC Data Initiative: A comparison of ozone climatologies from international satellite limb sounders, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 12, 229– 12, 247, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD019877, 2013.

Lachance, R. L., Buijs, H. L. and Soucy, M.A.: ACE-FTS on SCISAT: 10th year on-orbit anniversary, Proc. SPIE 8867, Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXI, 88670J, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024985, 2013.

Adams, C., Strong, K., Batchelor, R. L., Bernath, P. F., Brohede, S., Boone, C., Degenstein, D., Daffer, W. H., Drummond, J. R., Fogal, P. F., Farahani, E., Fayt, C., Fraser, A., Goutail, F., Hendrick, F., Kolonjari, F., Lindenmaier, R., Manney, G., McElroy, C. T., McLinden, C. A., Mendonca, J., Park, J.-H., Pavlovic, B., Pazmino, A., Roth, C., Savastiouk, V., Walker, K. A., Weaver, D., and Zhao, X.: Validation of ACE and OSIRIS ozone and \(NO_2\) measurements using ground-based instruments at 80° N, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 927-953, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-927-2012, 2012.

C.E. Sioris, J. Zou, C.T. McElroy, C.A. McLinden, H. Vömel,: High vertical resolution water vapour profiles in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere retrieved from MAESTRO solar occultation spectra, Advances in Space Research, Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 642-650, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2010.04.040, 2010.

Sioris, C. E., Boone, C. D., Bernath, P. F., Zou, J., McElroy, C. T., and McLinden, C. A.: Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) observations of aerosol in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from the Kasatochi volcanic eruption, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00L14, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013469, 2010.

Dupuy, E., Walker, K. A., Kar, J., Boone, C. D., McElroy, C. T., Bernath, P. F., Drummond, J. R., Skelton, R., McLeod, S. D., Hughes, R. C., Nowlan, C. R., Dufour, D. G., Zou, J., Nichitiu, F., Strong, K., Baron, P., Bevilacqua, R. M., Blumenstock, T., Bodeker, G. E., Borsdorff, T., Bourassa, A. E., Bovensmann, H., Boyd, I. S., Bracher, A., Brogniez, C., Burrows, J. P., Catoire, V., Ceccherini, S., Chabrillat, S., Christensen, T., Coffey, M. T., Cortesi, U., Davies, J., De Clercq, C., Degenstein, D. A., De Mazière, M., Demoulin, P., Dodion, J., Firanski, B., Fischer, H., Forbes, G., Froidevaux, L., Fussen, D., Gerard, P., Godin-Beekmann, S., Goutail, F., Granville, J., Griffith, D., Haley, C. S., Hannigan, J. W., Höpfner, M., Jin, J. J., Jones, A., Jones, N. B., Jucks, K., Kagawa, A., Kasai, Y., Kerzenmacher, T. E., Kleinböhl, A., Klekociuk, A. R., Kramer, I., Küllmann, H., Kuttippurath, J., Kyrölä, E., Lambert, J.-C., Livesey, N. J., Llewellyn, E. J., Lloyd, N. D., Mahieu, E., Manney, G. L., Marshall, B. T., McConnell, J. C., McCormick, M. P., McDermid, I. S., McHugh, M., McLinden, C. A., Mellqvist, J., Mizutani, K., Murayama, Y., Murtagh, D. P., Oelhaf, H., Parrish, A., Petelina, S. V., Piccolo, C., Pommereau, J.-P., Randall, C. E., Robert, C., Roth, C., Schneider, M., Senten, C., Steck, T., Strandberg, A., Strawbridge, K. B., Sussmann, R., Swart, D. P. J., Tarasick, D. W., Taylor, J. R., Tétard, C., Thomason, L. W., Thompson, A. M., Tully, M. B., Urban, J., Vanhellemont, F., Vigouroux, C., von Clarmann, T., von der Gathen, P., von Savigny, C., Waters, J. W., Witte, J. C., Wolff, M., and Zawodny, J. M.: Validation of ozone measurements from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 287-343, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-9-287-2009, 2009.

Kerzenmacher, T., Wolff, M. A., Strong, K., Dupuy, E., Walker, K. A., Amekudzi, L. K., Batchelor, R. L., Bernath, P. F., Berthet, G., Blumenstock, T., Boone, C. D., Bramstedt, K., Brogniez, C., Brohede, S., Burrows, J. P., Catoire, V., Dodion, J., Drummond, J. R., Dufour, D. G., Funke, B., Fussen, D., Goutail, F., Griffith, D. W. T., Haley, C. S., Hendrick, F., Höpfner, M., Huret, N., Jones, N., Kar, J., Kramer, I., Llewellyn, E. J., López-Puertas, M., Manney, G., McElroy, C. T., McLinden, C. A., Melo, S., Mikuteit, S., Murtagh, D., Nichitiu, F., Notholt, J., Nowlan, C., Piccolo, C., Pommereau, J.-P., Randall, C., Raspollini, P., Ridolfi, M., Richter, A., Schneider, M., Schrems, O., Silicani, M., Stiller, G. P., Taylor, J., Tétard, C., Toohey, M., Vanhellemont, F., Warneke, T., Zawodny, J. M., and Zou, J.: Validation of \(NO_2\) and \(NO\) from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 5801-5841, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-5801-2008, 2008.

Fraser, A., Goutail, F., Strong, K., Bernath, P. F., Boone, C., Daffer, W. H., Drummond, J. R., Dufour, D. G., Kerzenmacher, T. E., Manney, G. L., McElroy, C. T., Midwinter, C., McLinden, C. A., Nichitiu, F., Nowlan, C. R., Walker, J., Walker, K. A., Wu, H., and Zou, J.: Intercomparison of UV-visible measurements of ozone and \(NO_2\) during the Canadian Arctic ACE validation campaigns: 2004–2006, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 1763-1788, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-1763-2008, 2008.

Carleer, M. R., Boone, C. D., Walker, K. A., Bernath, P. F., Strong, K., Sica, R. J., Randall, C. E., Vömel, H., Kar, J., Höpfner, M., Milz, M., von Clarmann, T., Kivi, R., Valverde-Canossa, J., Sioris, C. E., Izawa, M. R. M., Dupuy, E., McElroy, C. T., Drummond, J. R., Nowlan, C. R., Zou, J., Nichitiu, F., Lossow, S., Urban, J., Murtagh, D., and Dufour, D. G.: Validation of water vapour profiles from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 4499-4559, https://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-8-4499-2008, 2008.

C.R. Nowlan, C.T. McElroy, J.R. Drummond: Measurements of the \(O_2\) A- and B-bands for determining temperature and pressure profiles from ACE–MAESTRO: Forward model and retrieval algorithm, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Volume 108, Issue 3, Pages 371-388, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.06.006, 2007.

Fraser, A., Bernath, P. F., Blatherwick, R. D., Drummond, J. R., Fogal, P. F., Fu, D., Goutail, F., Kerzenmacher, T. E., McElroy, C. T., Midwinter, C., Olson, J. R., Strong, K., Walker, K. A., Wunch, D., and Young, I. J.: Intercomparison of ground-based ozone and \(NO_2\) measurements during the MANTRA 2004 campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 5489-5499, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-7-5489-2007, 2007.

Sioris, C. E., McLinden, C. A., Martin, R. V., Sauvage, B., Haley, C. S., Lloyd, N. D., Llewellyn, E. J., Bernath, P. F., Boone, C. D., Brohede, S., and McElroy, C. T.: Vertical profiles of lightning-produced \(NO_2\) enhancements in the upper troposphere observed by OSIRIS, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 4281-4294, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-7-4281-2007, 2007.

Kar, J., McElroy, C.T., Drummond, J.R., Zou, J., Nichitiu, F., Walker, K.A., Randall, C.E., Nowlan, C.R., Dufour, D.G., Boone, C.D., Bernath, P.F., Trepte, C.R., Thomason, L.W., McLinden, C.: Initial comparison of ozone and \(NO_2\) profiles from ACE-MAESTRO with balloon and satellite data, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 112, D16301, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD008242, 2007.

McElroy, C.T., Nowlan, C.R., Drummond, J.R., Bernath, P.F., Barton, D.V., Dufour, D.G., Midwinter, C., Hall, R.B., Ogyu, A., Ullberg, A., Wardle, D.I., Kar, J., Zou, J., Nichitiu, F., Boone, C.D., Walker, K.A., and Rowlands, N.: The ACE-MAESTRO instrument on SCISAT: description, performance, and preliminary results, Appl. Opt. 46, 4341-4356, https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.46.004341, 2007.

Gilbert, K. L., Turnbull, D. N., Walker, K. A., Boone, C. D., McLeod, S. D., Butler, M., Skelton, R., Bernath, P. F., Chateauneuf, F., and Soucy, M.‐A.: The onboard imagers for the Canadian ACE SCISAT‐1 mission, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D12207, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007714, 2007.

Dufour, D.G., Drummond, J.R., McElroy, C.T., Midwinter, C., Bernath, P.F., Walker, K.A., Nowlan, C.R.: Simultaneous Measurements of Visible (400−700 nm) and Infrared (3.4 μm) NO2 Absorption, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 45, 12414-12418, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0634306, 2006.

Bernath, P.F.: Atmospheric chemistry experiment (ACE): Analytical chemistry from orbit, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages 647-654, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2006.05.001, 2006.

Dufour, D.G., Drummond, J.R., McElroy, C.T., Midwinter, C., Bernath, P.F., Walker, K.A., Evans, W.F.J., Puckrin, E.: Intercomparison of Simultaneously Obtained Infrared (4.8 μm) and Visible (515−715 nm) Ozone Spectra Using ACE-FTS and MAESTRO, J. Phys. Chem. A., 109, 39, 8760-8764, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp052435k, 2005.

Kerzenmacher, T. E., Walker, K.A., Strong, K., Berman, R., Bernath, P.F., Boone, C.D., Drummond, J.R., Fast, H., Fraser, A., MacQuarrie, K., Midwinter, C., Sung, K., McElroy, C.T., Mittermeier, R.L., Walker, J., Wu, H.: Measurements of \(O_3\), \(NO_2\) and Temperature during the 2004 Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L16S07, https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL023032, 2005.

Ma, P., Dobrowolski, J. A., Lin, F., Midwinter, C., McElroy, C.T.: Long-wavelength polarizing cutoff filters for the 275–550-nm spectral region, Appl. Opt. 41, 16, 3218-3223, https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.41.003218, 2002.

Bernath P., Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): An Overview. In: Demaison J., Sarka K., Cohen E.A. (eds) Spectroscopy from Space. NATO Science Series (Series II: Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry), vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht, 2001.