Active Ethernet Passive Optical Networks Over λ MultipleXing (Canada)

<strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> Thermodynamic profiles, especially in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), are essential for many research and operational applications. Ground-based infrared spectrometers (IRS) are commercially available, and thermodynamic profiles in the ABL can be retrieved from these observations at 5-minute resolution or better. This study deployed seven IRS systems within 5 m of each other in Boulder, Colorado, USA, in September&ndash;October 2023, providing an opportunity to evaluate the relative accuracy of the measured radiances from these systems as well as the retrieved thermodynamic profiles. The analysis demonstrates that the observed radiances from the seven instruments agree within 1 % of the ambient radiance in both opaque and more transparent channels. The differences in the spectral calibration between the instruments were smaller than 0.11 cm^-1, relative to the nominal effective wavenumber of the metrology laser of 15799 cm^-1 (i.e., better than 7.1 ppm). Further, the retrieved temperature and humidity profiles agree with each other well within the uncertainty of the retrieved profiles, and qualities derived from these thermodynamic profiles such as precipitable water vapor and height of the convective boundary layer also agree within their uncertainties. These results demonstrate a high degree of repeatability and precision, and that if these instruments were deployed as part of a network, any differences larger than the retrieval uncertainty would be associated with real environmental differences and not an artifact of the instrument calibration or retrieval.

Abstract. Thermodynamic profiles, especially in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), are essential for many research and operational applications. Ground-based infrared spectrometers (IRS) are commercially available, and thermodynamic profiles in the ABL can be retrieved from these observations at 5-minute resolution or better. This study deployed seven IRS systems within 5 m of each other in Boulder, Colorado, USA, in September–October 2023, providing an opportunity to evaluate the relative accuracy of the measured radiances from these systems as well as the retrieved thermodynamic profiles. The analysis demonstrates that the observed radiances from the seven instruments agree within 1 % of the ambient radiance in both opaque and more transparent channels. The differences in the spectral calibration between the instruments were smaller than 0.11 cm-1, relative to the nominal effective wavenumber of the metrology laser of 15799 cm-1 (i.e., better than 7.1 ppm). Further, the retrieved temperature and humidity profiles agree with each other well within the uncertainty of the retrieved profiles, and qualities derived from these thermodynamic profiles such as precipitable water vapor and height of the convective boundary layer also agree within their uncertainties. These results demonstrate a high degree of repeatability and precision, and that if these instruments were deployed as part of a network, any differences larger than the retrieval uncertainty would be associated with real environmental differences and not an artifact of the instrument calibration or retrieval.

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