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Published June 1997 | Version public
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Detection of tropospheric ozone by remote sensing from the ground

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  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Lab

Abstract

Due to larger multiple scattering effects in the troposphere compared to that in the stratosphere, the optical path of tropospheric ozone is markedly enhanced (as compared with that of stratospheric ozone) in the Huggins bands from 310 to 345 nm. Model study of the direct and diffuse solar fluxes on the ground shows differences between tropospheric and stratospheric ozone. The characteristic signature of tropospheric ozone enables us to distinguish a change in troposheric ozone from that of stratospheric ozone. A simple retrieval algorithm is used to recover the tropospheric column ozone from simulated data.

Additional Information

© 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. Received 18 July 1996, Available online 16 May 1998. We thank R. S. Stolarski, R. Cageao, M. Allen, R. McPeters, M. Newchurch, and J.-H. Kim for valuable comments. This work was supported by National Science Foundation grant ATM 9526209 and NASA grant NAGI-1806 to the California Institute of Technology. Contribution number 5674 from the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology. After this work was completed, it was pointed out to us by R. McPeters that similar ideas were proposed by Green et al.

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Eprint ID
48675
DOI
10.1016/S0022-4073(96)00145-8
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CaltechAUTHORS:20140819-093219098

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10.1016/S0022-4073(96)00145-8 (DOI)

Funding

NSF
ATM 9526209
NASA
NAG1-1806

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2014-08-19
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Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS)
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Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
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5674