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dc.contributor.authorHendrick, F.
dc.contributor.authorPommereau, J.-P.
dc.contributor.authorGoutail, F.
dc.contributor.authorEvans, R.D.
dc.contributor.authorIonov, D.
dc.contributor.authorPazmino, A.
dc.contributor.authorKyro, E.
dc.contributor.authorHeld, G.
dc.contributor.authorEriksen, P.
dc.contributor.authorDorokhov, V.
dc.contributor.authorGil, M.
dc.contributor.authorVan Roozendael, M.
dc.date2011
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-29T12:43:51Z
dc.date.available2016-03-29T12:43:51Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/3083
dc.descriptionAccurate long-term monitoring of total ozone is one of the most important requirements for identifying possible natural or anthropogenic changes in the composition of the stratosphere. For this purpose, the NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change) UV-visible Working Group has made recommendations for improving and homogenizing the retrieval of total ozone columns from twilight zenith-sky visible spectrometers. These instruments, deployed all over the world in about 35 stations, allow measuring total ozone twice daily with limited sensitivity to stratospheric temperature and cloud cover. The NDACC recommendations address both the DOAS spectral parameters and the calculation of air mass factors (AMF) needed for the conversion of O3 slant column densities into vertical column amounts. The most important improvement is the use of O3 AMF look-up tables calculated using the TOMS V8 (TV8) O3 profile climatology, that allows accounting for the dependence of the O3 AMF on the seasonal and latitudinal variations of the O3 vertical distribution. To investigate their impact on the retrieved ozone columns, the recommendations have been applied to measurements from the NDACC/SAOZ (Système d'Analyse par Observation Zénithale) network. The revised SAOZ ozone data from eight stations deployed at all latitudes have been compared to TOMS, GOME-GDP4, SCIAMACHY-TOSOMI, SCIAMACHY-OL3, OMI-TOMS, and OMI-DOAS satellite overpass observations, as well as to those of collocated Dobson and Brewer instruments at Observatoire de Haute Provence (44° N, 5.5° E) and Sodankyla (67° N, 27° E), respectively. A significantly better agreement is obtained between SAOZ and correlative reference ground-based measurements after applying the new O3 AMFs. However, systematic seasonal differences between SAOZ and satellite instruments remain. These are shown to mainly originate from (i) a possible problem in the satellite retrieval algorithms in dealing with the temperature dependence of the ozone cross-sections in the UV and the solar zenith angle (SZA) dependence, (ii) zonal modulations and seasonal variations of tropospheric ozone columns not accounted for in the TV8 profile climatology, and (iii) uncertainty on the stratospheric ozone profiles at high latitude in the winter in the TV8 climatology. For those measurements mostly sensitive to stratospheric temperature like TOMS, OMI-TOMS, Dobson and Brewer, or to SZA like SCIAMACHY-TOSOMI, the application of temperature and SZA corrections results in the almost complete removal of the seasonal difference with SAOZ, improving significantly the consistency between all ground-based and satellite total ozone observations.
dc.languageeng
dc.titleNDACC/SAOZ UV-visible total ozone measurements: Improved retrieval and comparison with correlative ground-based and satellite observations
dc.typeArticle
dc.subject.frascatiEarth and related Environmental sciences
dc.audienceScientific
dc.subject.freeair mass
dc.subject.freeair temperature
dc.subject.freealgorithm
dc.subject.freecloud cover
dc.subject.freecomparative study
dc.subject.freeGOME
dc.subject.freeground-based measurement
dc.subject.freesatellite imagery
dc.subject.freeSCIAMACHY
dc.subject.freesensitivity analysis
dc.subject.freespectrometer
dc.subject.freestratosphere
dc.subject.freeTOMS
dc.subject.freetotal ozone
dc.subject.freevertical distribution
dc.source.titleAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics
dc.source.volume11
dc.source.issue12
dc.source.page5975-5995
Orfeo.peerreviewedYes
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/acp-11-5975-2011
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-79960152508


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