Ozone Profile Retrieval And Its Application To The Polar View Mode Of Gome

• Main Author: Ronald J. Van Der A
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.46.7704; http://www.knmi.nl/~avander/esams.ps

GOME is a high resolution spectrometer, which observes the backscattered atmospheric radiation in nadir direction. From July 1995 till June 1997 the GOME instrument has made additional observations in polar view mode above the Arctic and Antarctic region. The polar view mode means that GOME is observing with a zenith angle of about 135 degrees in the azimuth direction of the Poles. Results are shown for height-resolved ozone densities in both troposphere and stratosphere. Special attention is paid to the polar view GOME observations of 1996 at the Antarctic region. 1. INTRODUCTION Since the late seventies satellites routinely monitor the global ozone distribution. The early TOMS/SBUV instruments measured the backscattered radiation for several frequencies, resulting in an accurate estimate of the total column densities of ozone. Apart from this limited information is obtained about the vertical ozone distribution in the stratosphere. However, a growing need evolved for more accurate .