Validation of ozone profiles retrieved from SAGE III limb scatter measurements

Didier F. Rault; Ghassan Taha

doi:10.1117/12.626618

1 November 2005 Validation of ozone profiles retrieved from SAGE III limb scatter measurements

Didier F. Rault, Ghassan Taha

Proceedings Volume 5979, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere X; 59790N (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.626618
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

Ozone profiles retrieved from SAGE III limb scatter measurements are compared with correlative measurements made by two occultation instruments (SAGE II, SAGE III), a limb scatter instrument (OSIRIS) and a series of ozonesondes, in order to ascertain the accuracy and precision of the SAGE III instrument in limb scatter mode. The measurement accuracy is found to be 5-10% from the tropopause to about 45km whereas precision is found to be less than 10% from 20 to 38km. The main source of error is height registration uncertainty, which is found to be Gaussian with a standard deviation of about 400m.

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Didier F. Rault and Ghassan Taha "Validation of ozone profiles retrieved from SAGE III limb scatter measurements", Proc. SPIE 5979, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere X, 59790N (1 November 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.626618

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