Total ozone column retrieval from UV-MFRSR irradiance measurements: evaluation at Mauna Loa station

Melina Maria Zempila; Konstantinos Fragkos; John Davis; Zhibin Sun; Maosi Chen; Wei Gao

doi:10.1117/12.2274565

19 September 2017 Total ozone column retrieval from UV-MFRSR irradiance measurements: evaluation at Mauna Loa station

Melina Maria Zempila, Konstantinos Fragkos, John Davis, Zhibin Sun, Maosi Chen, Wei Gao

Proceedings Volume 10405, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XIV; 1040507 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274565
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program (UVMRP) comprises of 36 climatological sites along with 4 long-duration research sites, in 27 states, one Canadian province, and the south island of New Zealand. Each station is equipped with an Ultraviolet multi-filter rotating shadowband radiometer (UV-MFRSR) which can provide response-weighted irradiances at 7 wavelengths (300, 305.5, 311.4, 317.6, 325.4, and 368 nm) with a nominal full width at half maximun of 2 nm. These UV irradiance data from the long term monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, are used as input to a retrieval algorithm in order to derive high time frequency total ozone columns. The sensitivity of the algorithm to the different wavelength inputs is tested and the uncertainty of the retrievals is assessed based on error propagation methods. For the validation of the method, collocated hourly ozone data from the Dobson Network of the Global Monitoring Division (GMD) of the Earth System Radiation Laboratory (ESRL) under the jurisdiction of the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the period 2010-2015 were used.

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Melina Maria Zempila, Konstantinos Fragkos, John Davis, Zhibin Sun, Maosi Chen, and Wei Gao "Total ozone column retrieval from UV-MFRSR irradiance measurements: evaluation at Mauna Loa station", Proc. SPIE 10405, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XIV, 1040507 (19 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274565

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