The Global Distribution of Mesospheric Ozone as Measured With OSIRIS

Details The Global Distribution of Mesospheric Ozone as Measured With OSIRIS The Global Distribution of Mesospheric Ozone as Measured With OSIRIS

May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agusmsa43b..05d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA43B-05

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0305 Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), 0310 Airglow And Aurora, 0340 Middle Atmosphere: Composition And Chemistry, 0341 Middle Atmosphere: Constituent Transport And Chemistry (3334)

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The OSIRIS instrument on the Odin satellite includes an imager section that measures the oxygen infrared atmospheric band airglow emission at 1.27 microns. These measurements can be tomographically inverted to derive both the vertical emission profile and its distribution along the satellite track. As this airglow emission is a proxy for the corresponding ozone content global maps of the emission distribution at individual altitudes provide a clear description of vertical coupling in the mesosphere. There are two periods of the year, end of February and end of October, when the entire illuminated globe is observed and global ozone structures can be determined for altitudes as low as 50 km. In this paper we present examples of the global maps that are generated from a single day of observations and show how the distribution varies over time scales of a few days. Near the dayglow emission peak the maps suggest the presence of a clear n = 2 wave. However, at higher altitudes near the mesopause, which are observable for a longer period, the emission is extremely structured and suggests that other atmospheric species must also exhibit a related structure. The possibility of relating these structures to water vapour distributions is discussed.

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