Comparison of POAM III ozone measurements with correlative aircraft and balloon data during SOLVE

• Main Authors: Jerry D. Lumpe, Mike Fromm, Richard M. Bevilacqua, Cora E. Randall, Edward V. Browell, William B. Grant, Thomas Mcgee, John Burris, Laurence Twigg, Erik C. Richard, Geoffrey C. Toon, James J. Margitan, Bhaswar Sen, Klaus Pfeilsticker, Hartmut Boesch, Richard Fitzenberger
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.9433; http://mark4sun.jpl.nasa.gov/ozone/papers/Lumpe2003.pdf

[1] The Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement (POAM) III instrument operated continuously during the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) mission, making approximately 1400 ozone profile measurements at high latitudes both inside and outside the Arctic polar vortex. The wealth of ozone measurements obtained from a variety of instruments and platforms during SOLVE provided a unique opportunity to compare correlative measurements with the POAM III data set. In this paper, we validate the POAM III version 3.0 ozone against measurements from seven different instruments that operated as part of the combined SOLVE/THESEO 2000 campaign. These include the airborne UV Differential Absorption