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Determination of ozone amounts by the dobson spectrophotometer using the focused sun method
Author(s) -
Hamilton R. A.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709038515
Subject(s) - ozone , sky , environmental science , range (aeronautics) , remote sensing , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , physics , materials science , geology , composite material
When the effective path length μ is greater than 4 the focused sun method must be used when measuring the amount of atmospheric ozone by the Dobson spectrophotometer. Errors are introduced by light from the sky, and by light scattered within the spectrophotometer. A method of evaluating these errors is described, and corrections are tabulated which enable measurements of ozone amount to be made when μ is in the range 4 to 8·5.