Wednesday, January 8, 2025
ACE-FTS version 5.2 processing ended on Nov. 30, 2024 and has been replaced by v5.3. This version change was required because of a change in processing computers. A small change was also made in the retrieval code, which has minimized the number of “spikes” in the VMR profiles near 30 km. As in v5.2, v5.3 removes any occultations with spikes at 30 km. About 1500 occultations have been recovered in v5.3. Processing for the Imagers has not changed. ACE-FTS v5.3 winds will be available soon. V5.3 is therefore the current and complete ACE-FTS and Imager processing version and can be viewed at our ACE v5.3 database. More details are available in the ACE documents.