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Transportable Lidar for the Measurement of Ozone Concentration and Flux Profiles in the Lower TroposphereIn many areas of the United States, as well as in other industrial areas (such as Europe), elevated and potentially harmful levels of ozone are being measured during summer. Most of this ozone is photochemically produced. The relatively long lifetime of ozone allows industrially produced ozone to be transported on a hemispheric scale. Since the trends of tropospheric ozone are very likely dependent on the source strengths and distributions of the pollutants and the chemical/ transport process involved, a predictive understanding of tropospheric ozone climatology requires a focus on the chemical and transport processes that link regional emissions to hemispheric ozone trends and distributions. Of critical importance to these studies is a satisfactory data base of tropospheric ozone distribution from which global and regional tropospheric ozone climatology can be derived, and the processes controlling tropospheric ozone can be better understood. A transportable lidar for measuring ozone concentration and flux profiles in the lower troposphere is needed. One such system is being developed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Earth Resources Laboratory (NOAA/ERL) Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL).
Document ID
19920020035
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Zhao, Yanzeng
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Howell, James N.
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Hardesty, R. Michael
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder, CO., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Langley Research Center, Sixteenth International Laser Radar Conference, Part 1
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Accession Number
92N29278
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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