Abstract: We assimilate ozone and CO retrievals from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) for July and August 2006 into the GEOS‐Chem and AM2‐Chem models. We show that the spatiotemporal sampling of the TES measurements is sufficient to constrain the tropospheric ozone distribution in the models despite their different chemical and transport mechanisms. Assimilation of TES data reduces the mean differences in ozone between the models from almost 8 ppbv to 1.5 ppbv. Differences between the mean model profiles and ozonesonde data over North Ame...
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Atmospheric sciences
Climatology
Meteorology