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McPeters et al. 1999
McPeters, R.D., Hofmann, D.J., Clark, M., Flynn, L., Froidevaux, L., Gross, M., Johnson, B., Koenig, G., Liu, X., McDermid, S., McGee, T., Murcray, F., Newchurch, M.J., Oltmans, S., Parrish, A., Schnell, R., Singh, U., Tsou, J.J., Walsh, T. and Zawodny, J.M. (1999). Results from the 1995 Stratospheric Ozone Profile Intercomparison at Mauna Loa. Journal of Geophysical Research 104: doi: 10.1029/1999JD900760. issn: 0148-0227.

In August 1995, multiple instruments that measure the stratospheric ozone vertical distribution were intercompared at the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, under the auspices of the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change. The instruments included two UV lidar systems, one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the other from Goddard Space Flight Center, electrochemical concentration cell balloon sondes, a ground-based microwave instrument, Dobson-based Umkehr measurements, and a new ground-based Fourier transform infrared instrument. The Microwave Limb Sounder instrument on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite provided correlative profiles of ozone, and there was one close overpass of the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) instrument. The results show that much better consistency among instruments is being achieved than even a few years ago, usually to within the instrument uncertainties. The different measurement techniques in this comparison agree to within ¿10% at almost all altitudes, and in the 20--45 km region most agreed within ¿5%. The results show that the current generation of lidars is capable of accurate measurement of the ozone profile to a maximum altitude of 50 km. SAGE II agreed well with both lidar and balloon sonde down to at least 17 km. The ground-based microwave measurement agreed with other measurements from 22 km to above 50 km. One minor source of disagreement continues to be the pressure-altitude conversion needed to compare a measurement of ozone density versus altitude with a measurement of ozone mixing ratio versus pressure. ¿ 1999 American Geophysical Union

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Middle atmosphere—composition and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Instruments and techniques, Hydrology, Evapotranspiration, Information Related to Geographic Region, Antarctica
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