Title :
Vertical profiles of ozone from Envisat space platform with GOMOS instrument
Author :
Bertaux, Jean-Loup
Author_Institution :
Service d´´Aeronomie, CNRS, Verrieres-le-Buisson, France
Abstract :
As a part of the payload of ESA ENVISAT platform, the GOMOS instrument (Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars) will measure the vertical profile of ozone and several other species by the technique of stellar occultations, in order to measure the time variations of ozone, determine their causes, and ultimately improve our understanding of stratospheric chemistry for a better long term prediction. This article descriibes the instrument operation modes and the retrieval algorithms
Keywords :
air pollution measurement; atmospheric composition; atmospheric techniques; ozone; remote sensing; Envisat; GOMOS; O3; air pollution; atmosphere; chemical composition; instrument; limb profiling; measurement technique; ozone; remote sensing; satellite remote sensing; stellar occultation; stratosphere; vertical profile; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Chemistry; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Monitoring; Predictive models; Space missions; Terrestrial atmosphere; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.772037
