Tropospheric ozone profiles from a ground-based ultraviolet spectrometer: a new retrieval method.
We present, to the best of our knowledge, a new method to retrieve tropospheric ozone (O3) profiles from ground-based ultraviolet spectroscopic measurements. This method utilizes radiance spectra in the Huggins bands (i.e., 300-340 nm) measured at three off-axis angles (e.g., 45 degrees, 75 degrees, and 85 degrees) normalized to direct-Sun irradiances or zenith-sky radiances with the total column O3 derived from direct-Sun or zenith-sky measurements as a constraint. The vertical resolution of the retrieved O3 values ranges from approximately 3 km near the surface to approximately 12 km at 20 km altitude. This method can be used to measure diurnal variation of tropospheric O3 profiles and is complementary to the Umkehr method that mainly measures ozone profiles in the stratosphere.
Liu
Xiong
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Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. xliu@cfa.harvard.edu
Chance
Kelly
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Sioris
Christopher E
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Newchurch
Michael J
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Kurosu
Thomas P
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