Comparison of the TOMS/SBUV tropospheric ozone residual (TOR) with the TOMS/SAGE TOR and low cloud frequencies

Author

Vukovich, Fred M. ; Brackett, Vincent ; Fishman, Jack ; Sickles, Joseph E.

Author_Institution

Sci. Applications Int. Corp., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

2621

Abstract

The 5-year (1985-1989) mean TOMS/SBUV tropospheric ozone residual (TOR) was compared with the 5-year mean TOMS/SAGE TOR. Many of the temporal and spatial features in the TOMS/SBUV TOR were similar to those found in the TOMS/SAGE TOR, suggesting a certain of consistency in the two data sets; however, significant differences were also noted. Some of these differences appear to be the result of spatial resolution differences between the TOMS/SBUV and TOMS/SAGE TOR data. Some, however, could not simply be explained by the spatial resolution differences. The comparisons between the 5-year (1985-1989) mean low-cloud frequency data with the TOMS/SBUV data showed that in some cases centers of persistent low clouds coincided with high ozone centers and in some case they did not

Keywords

air pollution; air pollution measurement; atmospheric composition; atmospheric techniques; ozone; remote sensing; stratosphere; troposphere; AD 1985 to 1989; O₃; SAGE; SBUV; TOMS; TOR; air pollution; atmosphere; chemical composition; low cloud frequency; measurement technique; ozone; satellite remote sensing; solar backscatter ultraviolet; spatial resolution difference; stratosphere; tropospheric ozone residual; Africa; Asia; Australia; Belts; Clouds; Frequency estimation; Lifting equipment; Oceans; South America; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702298

Filename

702298