Non-LTE error assessment for CAIRT

This supplement provides a non-LTE error assessment for the Earth Explorer 11 candidate mission CAIRT(the Changing-Atmosphere Infra-Red Tomography Explorer). Section 1 outlines the non-LTE assessmentstrategy that followed in order to assess non-LTE related errors in CAIRT’s targeted geophysical (L2) quantities.Section 2 briefly describes the non-LTE models used in the retrievals and the related uncertainties. Atable with a summary of the uncertainties is provided. Section 3 provides a table identifying the non-LTEprocesses leading to errors overcoming CAIRT’s L2 data requirements. The estimations were made basedon Linear Performace simulator (LPEv2) simulations and the Extended Reference Scenario (ERS).

This supplement relates to the report 'Anticipated Mission performance at Phase-0' of the CAIRT 'Science and Requirements Consolidation' study(SciReC) and the reports 'CAIRT measurement requirements assessment' (DEL-09-CAIRT-PhAPerReC-3.1) and 'Evaluation of CAIRT scientific performance in Phase A through analysis and demonstration' (DEL-10-CAIRT-PhAPerReC-2.1) of the CAIRT 'Mission Performance andRequirement Consolidation' activity (PerReC) (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18496133).
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