NA-9 Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) instrument and derived ozone data

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Noaa 9 Satellite, Ozone, Ozonometry, Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, Ultraviolet Spectrometers, Atmospheric Composition, Backscattering

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The NOAA ozone monitoring program was initiated by the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) in December 1984 with the launch of the NOAA-9 operational satellite carrying the first operational Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) spectrometer. The primary conclusions include the following: (1) The NOAA-9 equator crossing time is continually later in the day due to precession of the orbit. This results in an ever-increasing angle of solar incidence on the diffuser plate, approaching values beyond those used in pre-launch radiometric calibration and testing. (2) The increasing equator crossing times also result in observations at greater solar zenith angles at the observed scenes introducing an uncertain zenith-angle dependency on the retrieved ozone values. (3) Compared to other sources of data (SBUV and TOMS on Nimbus 7 and the ground-base Dobson network), the total ozone amount derived from the SBUV/2 shows an increasing greater difference with SBUV/2 values being higher. Compared to selected subsets of Dobson values, the SBUV/2 - Dobson differences are diverging about 0.3 to 0.5 percent per year. (4) Short-term variations in total ozone derived from SBUV/2 measurements show excellent correlation with SBUV and TOMS data with respect to day-to-day, seasonal and latitudinal variabilities.

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