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Abstract of Contribution 29
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Poster presentation
Topics: Results on the Generation of Atmospheric Essential Climate Variables, Reactive Trace Gases in the Atmosphere

OMI Total Ozone Column Product validated against UVMFR retrievals

Panagiotis Ioannis Raptis1, Stelios Kazadzis1,2, Kostas Eleftheratos3, Panagiotis Kosmopoulos1, Vassilis Amiridis4
1Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development (IERSD), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Metaxa & Vas
Pavlou, Penteli, 15236, Athens, Greece; 2Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos-WRC, World Optical depth Research and
Calibration Center, Dorfstrasse 33, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland; 3Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens,
Athens,Greece; 4Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS), National Observatory of
Athens (NOA),Athens , Greece
The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) is a spectroradiometer on board NASA Aura, providing Total Ozone Column (TOC), almost globally,
every day, with a spatial resolution of 13kmX24 km, since July 2004. In the next few months Sentinel-5P will be launched, and carry
TROPOMI, a spaceborne nadir viewing spectrometer which will cover tha same spectral range, narrowing the spatial resolution to 7 km X 7
km and extending current data record. Studies have evaluated OMIs product using Brewer spectroradiometer measurements and found
average biases to be less than 3%.
UVMFR (Ultraviolet Multifilter Radiometer) is an instrument designed to measure total and diffuse and calculate Direct solar Irradiance at 7
wavelengths in the UV spectrum, with high accuracy and very high frequency. Main advantages of this instrument is the portability, the
automatic calibration procedure, simple operational use, unattended functionality and the relatively low cost. In that frame it could become a
very effective solution to validate satellite products.
A method was developed to retrieve TOC, from UVMFR measurements combined with radiative transfer model calculations. Lookup tables
of ratios of direct solar irradiance at 305nm and 325nm in respect to TOC, Solar Zenith Angle and Aerosol Optical Depth have been
constructed and compared with UVMFR irradiance measurements in order to retrieve TOC. We used UVMFR measurements in Athens,
Greece during the period July 2009 to May 2014 to create a TOC time series with high temporal frequency (1 minute for cloudless
conditions). The validation of the method have been assessed using a Brewer spectroradiometer operating in parallel for the whole period.
In order to compare OMI-based and ground-based TOC measurements we have calculated UVMFR daily values of TOC averaging
measurements in a 2 hour window around OMI overpass. This comparison revealed differences up to 7%, with mean differences at 4.2 DU
and standard deviation of 8.7%. Same seasonal cycle was observed in both data sets, with minimum values at October-November and
maximum at April-May. Also a small seasonal dependent difference among the time series was observed. OMI retrieval permanently
underestimated during spring months, and overestimated at summer months. We investigated this behavior by examining Ozone Effective
Temperature influence by its effect on ozone absorption coefficient and detect a relation of 0.9% TOC change per K. We applied a correction
to the data set using stratospheric temperature climatological values.
This method could be be adopted in order to validate TROPOMI retrievals in places where Brewer instruments are not available, benefiting
from instrument s mobility and low cost and portability.

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