In the spring of 1978, carbonyl sulfide measurements were made at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on Project Gametag (Global Atmospheric Measurements Experiment of Tropospheric Aerosols and Gases). At Drexel University, measurements were made on 7 days in mid-March, using a dual-channel sampling system. These data had a mean concentration and standard deviation of 544¿27 pptv on channel 1 and 522¿27 pptv on channel 2. In project Gametag, 346 measurements of the tropospheric concentration of OCS were made over a latitude range 57¿S to 70¿N. Samples were obtained over the central and southern Pacific Ocean and the western sections of the United States and Canada. Overall OCS levels averaged 512 pptv with a standard deviation of 65 pptv and a standard error of the mean of 4 pptv. Carbonyl sulfide levels were statistically the same in the free troposphere and the boundary layer and over continental and marine areas. The apparent north-south gradient seen in the Gametag data set was attributed to a change in the calibration system as a function of time during the experiment.