Generalized treatment of particulate scattering in Dobson ozone spectrophotometer calculations

Gardiner, B.G.. 1978 Generalized treatment of particulate scattering in Dobson ozone spectrophotometer calculations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 104 (441). 623-629. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49710444107

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Abstract/Summary

In the calculation of atmospheric total ozone from ultraviolet spectrometry, the particulate scattering term is usually regarded as a linear function of wavelength. A method due to R. E. Basher, in which it is treated as a quadratic polynomial, is here generalized to include a polynomial of any degree, and the quadratic approximation is seen to be somewhat arbitrary. It is shown that the determination of the quadratic and higher coefficients from Dobson spectrophotometer observations is limited by systematic errors of measurement, and that these errors are doubled or trebled by attempting to correct even for the quadratic coefficient. It is concluded that Basher's method of calculation is at present inadvisable.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49710444107
ISSN:	00359009
NORA Subject Terms:	Mathematics
Date made live:	15 Oct 2019 07:46 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525392

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49710444107

ISSN:

00359009

NORA Subject Terms:

Mathematics

Date made live:

15 Oct 2019 07:46 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525392