Review Article

A Review of Water Isotopes in Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Recent Advances and Future Prospects

Table 2

Global Ground-based and Space-borne Measurements*.

MeasurementMain operatorRelevant datasetsPrecisionTime period References

GNIP
(Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation)
IAEA/WMOD, , and tritium content ±0.8 for δD and ±0.1 for From 1961 onwards Dansgaard [5]
Rozanski et al. [36]

MUSICA
(MUlti-platform remote Sensing of Isotopologues for investigating the Cycle of Atmospheric water)
The Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK)-Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (ASF)Total-column D10~25From 1996 onwardsSchneider et al. [38]

NDACC
(Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change)
NOAA
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Total-column D<10From 1991 onwardsSchneider et al. [38]

TCCON
(Total Carbon Column Observing Network)
Caltech
(California Institute of Technology)
Total-column D5~22From 2004 onwards (varies among stations)Wunch et al. [37]

ACE
(Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment)
CSA
(Canadian Space Agency)
DNAFrom 2004 onwardsBernath et al. [60]

GOSAT
(Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite)
JAXA
(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
Total-column D20~40June 2009 to September 2011Frankenberg et al. [61]

IASI
(Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer)
CNES
(Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)
D in troposphere~37From 2007 onwardsHerbin et al. [62]

IMG
(Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse gases)
JAROS
(Japan Resources Observation System Organization)
Total-column D20~1701996 to 1997Zakharov et al. [63]

MIPAS
(Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding)
ESA
(European Space Agency)
D in stratosphere36~111June 2002 to March 2004Steinwagner et al. [64]
Payne et al. [65]

SCIAMACHY
(SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY)
ESAColumn-averaged D40~1002003 to 2005
(more data is in processing)
Frankenberg et al. [39]

TES
(Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer)
NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Total-column D~10From 2004 onwardsWorden et al. [40]
Worden et al. [66]

Air-borne measurements from aircrafts and balloon platforms are omitted here because they are more regional in nature. Ground-based measurements and spaceborne measurements are listed in alphabetical order in their respective subgroups. NA stands for not available.