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

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1616

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.772037

Filename

772037