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Satellite and correlative measurements of stratospheric ozone - Comparison of measurements made by SAGE, ECC balloons, chemiluminescent, and optical rocketsondesThe validity of ozone-profile data from the satellite sensor SAGE was tested in a series of correlative experiments conducted at five fixed sites between 6 deg S and 65 deg N during 1979-1980. The intercomparisons included data taken with electrochemical ozone (ECC) balloonsondes and chemiluminescent and optical rocketsondes. The average mean difference for 17 separate comparisons between the SAGE and ECC balloonsonde observations over the altitudes 18-28 km was 9.3 percent with a standard deviation of 2.8 percent. Excluding comparisons separated by greater than 500 km reduces the average mean difference to 8.9 percent and the standard deviation to 2.1 percent. The average mean difference between SAGE and three optical rocketsonde observations over the altitudes 25-50 km was 11 percent, and between SAGE and two chemiluminescent rocketsondes over the altitudes 20-60 km it was 13.5 percent. Considering the differences in vertical resolution, experimental errors, and ozone time and space gradients, the agreement between SAGE-derived ozone profiles and these correlative measurements is considered very good. In addition, isopleths of ozone mixing ratio versus latitude and altitude are in good agreement with previously published results.
Document ID
19840056669
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mccormick, M. P.
(NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Sciences Div., Hampton, VA, United States)
Swissler, T. J.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Osborn, M. T.
(Systems and Applied Sciences Corp. Hampton, VA, United States)
Hilsenrath, E.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Krueger, A. J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
June 30, 1984
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 89
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
84A39456
Distribution Limits
Public
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