Mapping tropospheric ozone profiles from an airborne ultraviolet-visible spectrometer

Xiong Liu; Christopher E. Sioris; Kelly Chance; Thomas P. Kurosu; Michael J. Newchurch; Randall V. Martin; Paul I. Palmer

doi:10.1364/AO.44.003312

Mapping tropospheric ozone profiles from an airborne ultraviolet-visible spectrometer

Xiong Liu
, Christopher E. Sioris
, Kelly Chance
, Thomas P. Kurosu
, Michael J. Newchurch
, Randall V. Martin
, Paul I. Palmer

Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering

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We present a novel technique for retrieving ozone (O₃) profiles and especially tropospheric O₃ from airborne UV/visible spectrometer measurements. This technique utilizes radiance spectra from one down-looking and two up-looking (85° and 75°) directions, taking advantage of the O ₃ absorption structure in the Huggins (300-340-nm) and Chappuis (530-650-nm) bands. This technique is especially sensitive to tropospheric O₃ below and ≤8 km above the aircraft with a vertical resolution of 2-6 km and is sensitive to lower and middle stratospheric O₃ with a vertical resolution of 8-15 km. It can measure tropospheric O₃ at spatial resolutions of 2 km × 2 km or higher and is therefore well suited for regional air-quality studies and validation of satellite measurements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3312-3319
Number of pages	8
Journal	Applied Optics
Volume	44
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.44.003312
State	Published - Jun 1 2005

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Mapping tropospheric ozone profiles from an airborne ultraviolet-visible spectrometer

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