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Stratospheric Ozone Intercomparison Campaign (STOIC) 1989: OverviewThe NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Program organized a Stratospheric Ozone Intercomparison Campaign (STOIC) held in July-August 1989 at the Table Mountain Facility (TMF) of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The primary instruments participating in this campaign were several that had been developed by NASA for the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change: the JPL ozone lidar at TMF, the Goddard Space Flight Center trailer-mounted ozone lidar which was moved to TMF for this comparison, and the Millitech/LaRC microwave radiometer. To assess the performance of these new instruments, a validation/intercomparison campaign was undertaken using established techniques: balloon ozonesondes launched by personnel from the Wallops Flight Facility and from NOAA Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change (GMCC) (now Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory), a NOAA GMCC Dobson spectrophotometer, and a Brewer spectrometer from the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada, both being used for column as well as Umkehr profile retrievals. All of these instruments were located at TMF and measurements were made as close together in time as possible to minimize atmospheric variability as a factor in the comparisons. Daytime rocket measurements of ozone were made by Wallops Flight Facility personnel using ROCOZ-A instruments launched from San Nicholas Island. The entire campaign was conducted as a blind intercomparison, with the investigators not seeing each others data until all data had been submitted to a referee and archived at the end of the 2-week period (July 20 to August 2, 1989). Satellite data were also obtained from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE 2) aboard the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) aboard Nimbus 7. An examination of the data has found excellent agreement among the techniques, especially in the 20- to 40-km range. As expected, there was little atmospheric variability during the intercomparison, allowing for detailed statistical comparisons at a high level of precision. This overview paper summarizes the campaign and provides a 'road map' to subsequent papers in this issue by the individual instrument teams which will present more detailed analysis of the data and conclusions.
Document ID
19970007963
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
doi:10.1029/95JD00509
Authors
Margitan, J. J. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Barnes, R. A. (Chemal, Inc. Wallops Island, VA United States)
Brothers, G. B. (Chemal, Inc. Wallops Island, VA United States)
Butler, J. (Hughes STX, Inc. Lanham, MD United States)
Burris, J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Connor, B. J. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Ferrare, R. A. (Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, MD United States)
Kerr, J. B. (Atmospheric Environment Service Downsview, Ontario Canada)
Komhyr, W. D. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder, CO United States)
McCormick, M. P. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
McDermid, I. S. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
McElroy, C. T. (Atmospheric Environment Service Downsview, Ontario Canada)
McGee, T. J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Miller, A. J. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Washington, DC United States)
Owens, M. (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD United States)
Parrish, A. D. (Massachusetts Univ. Amherst, MA United States)
Parsons, C. L. (NASA Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, VA United States)
Torres, A. L. (NASA Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, VA United States)
Tsou, J. J. (Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Hampton, VA United States)
Walsh, T. D. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
May 20, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Volume: 100
Issue: D5
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Geophysics
Report/Patent Number
Paper-95JD00509
NASA-CR-203123
NAS 1.26:203123
Accession Number
97N14494
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS7-100
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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