The ozone monitoring instrument

Author

Levelt, Pieternel F. ; Van den Oord, Gijsbertus H J ; Dobber, Marcel R. ; Mälkki, Anssi ; Visser, Huib ; De Vries, Johan ; Stammes, Piet ; Lundell, Jens O V ; Saari, Heikki

Author_Institution

R. Dutch Meteorol. Inst., De Bilt, Netherlands

Volume

44

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1093

Lastpage

1101

Abstract

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) flies on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration´s Earth Observing System Aura satellite launched in July 2004. OMI is a ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) nadir solar backscatter spectrometer, which provides nearly global coverage in one day with a spatial resolution of 13 km×24 km. Trace gases measured include O₃, NO₂, SO₂, HCHO, BrO, and OClO. In addition, OMI will measure aerosol characteristics, cloud top heights, and UV irradiance at the surface. OMI´s unique capabilities for measuring important trace gases with a small footprint and daily global coverage will be a major contribution to our understanding of stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and climate change. OMI´s high spatial resolution is unprecedented and will enable detection of air pollution on urban scale resolution. In this paper, the instrument and its performance will be discussed.

Keywords

aerosols; aerospace instrumentation; air pollution; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; ozone; AD 2004 07; Aura satellite; BrO; HCHO; NASA Earth Observing System; NO₂; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; O₃; OClO; Ozone Monitoring Instrument; SO₂; UV irradiance; aerosol characteristics; air pollution; air quality; atmospheric chemistry; climate change; cloud top heights; nadir solar backscatter spectrometer; ozone layer; trace gases; Atmospheric measurements; Backscatter; Earth Observing System; Gases; Instruments; Monitoring; Pollution measurement; Satellites; Spatial resolution; Spectroscopy; Air quality; atmospheric research; ozone layer; ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) satellite instruments;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2006.872333

Filename

1624590