column number density averaging kernel derivations
column number density column AVK for air component from column number density AVK:
symbol description unit variable name \(A^{c}_{x}(i)\) column AVK for column number density profile for air component x (e.g. \(A^{c}_{O_{3}}(i)\)) \(\frac{molec/m^2}{molec/m^2}\) <species>_column_number_density_avk {:,vertical} \(A^{c}_{x}(i,j)\) AVK for column number density profile for air component x (e.g. \(A^{c}_{O_{3}}(i,j)\)) \(\frac{molec/m^2}{molec/m^2}\) <species>_column_number_density_avk {:,vertical,vertical} The pattern : for the first dimensions can represent {latitude,longitude}, {time}, {time,latitude,longitude}, or no dimensions at all.
\[A^{c}_{x}(i) = \sum_{j}{A^{c}_{x}(j,i)}\]column number density AVK for air component from number density AVK:
symbol description unit variable name \(A^{c}_{x}(i,j)\) AVK for column number density profile for air component x (e.g. \(A^{c}_{O_{3}}(i,j)\)) \(\frac{molec/m^2}{molec/m^2}\) <species>_column_number_density_avk {:,vertical,vertical} \(A^{n}_{x}(i,j)\) AVK for number density profile for air component x (e.g. \(A^{n}_{O_{3}}(i,j)\)) \(\frac{molec/m^3}{molec/m^3}\) <species>_number_density_avk {:,vertical,vertical} \(z^{B}(i,l)\) altitude boundaries (\(l \in \{1,2\}\)) \(m\) altitude_bounds {:,vertical,2} The pattern : for the first dimensions can represent {latitude,longitude}, {time}, {time,latitude,longitude}, or no dimensions at all.
\[\begin{split}A^{c}_{x}(i,j) = \begin{cases} z^{B}(j,1) \neq z^{B}(j,2), & A^{n}_{x}(i,j) \frac{\lvert z^{B}(i,2) - z^{B}(i,1) \rvert}{\lvert z^{B}(j,2) - z^{B}(j,1) \rvert} \\ z^{B}(j,1) \neq z^{B}(j,2), & 0 \end{cases}\end{split}\]