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Ainsworth et al. 1981
Ainsworth, J.E., Hagemeyer, J.R. and Reed, E.I. (1981). Error in Dasibi flight measurements of atmospheric ozone due to instrument wall-loss. Geophysical Research Letters 8: doi: 10.1029/GL008i010p01071. issn: 0094-8276.

Theory suggests that in laminar flow the percent loss of a trace constituent to the walls of a measuring instrument varies as P-2/3, where P is the total gas pressure. Preliminary laboratory ozone wall-loss measurements confirm this P-2/3 dependence. Accurate assessment of wall-loss is thus of particular importance for those balloon-borne instruments utilizing laminar flow at ambient pressure, since the ambient pressure decreases by a factor of 350 during ascent to 40 km. Measurements and extrapolations made for a Dasibi ozone monitor modified for balloon flight indicate that the wall-loss error at 40 km was between 6 and 30 percent and that the wall-loss error in the derived total ozone column-content for the region from the surface to 40 km altitude was between 2 and 10 percent. At 1000 mb, turbulence caused an order of magnitude increase in the Dasibi wall-loss.

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