Long path monitoring of tropospheric O3, NO2, H2CO and SO2

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Apr 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994ozts.nasa..166v&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, Ozone in the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Part 1 p 166-169 (SEE N95-10590 01-47)

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Atmospheric Composition, Formaldehyde, Gas Analysis, Nitrogen Oxides, Ozone, Spectroscopic Analysis, Sulfur Dioxides, Troposphere, Absorption Spectroscopy, Beer Law, Concentration (Composition), Diurnal Variations, Gas Spectroscopy

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Concentrations of tropospheric O3, NO2, H2CO, and SO2 have been measured on the Campus of the 'Universite Libre de Bruxelles' on a routine basis since October 1990. The long path system consists of a source lamp, a first 30 cm f/8 Cassegrain type telescope which collimates the light onto a slightly parabolic mirror placed on the roof of a building situated 394 m away from the laboratory. The light is sent back into a second 30 cm Cassegrain telescope. This telescope has been modified so that the output beam is a 5 cm diameter parallel beam. This beam is then focused onto the entrance aperture of the BRUKER IFS120HR fourier transform spectrometer. The two telescopes are mounted on alignment devices and the external mirror is equipped with a driving system operated from the laboratory. The choice of the light source (either a 1000 W high pressure 'ozone free' xenon lamp or a 250 W tungsten filament) and of the detector (either a solar blind UV-diode or a silicon diode) depended on the spectral region studied. These regions lie respectively from 26,000 cm(exp -1) to 30,000 cm(exp -1) (260-380 nm) and from 14,000 cm(exp -1) to 30,000 cm(exp -1) (330-700 nm). The spectra have been recorded at the resolution of 16 cm(exp -1) and with a dispersion of 7.7 cm(exp -1). They have been measured during the forward and the backward movements of the mobile mirror, in double sided mode; each spectrum is an average of 2000 scans. The time required to record a spectrum is about 45 minutes. The shape of the raw spectra in the two investigated regions are represented.

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