Lawrence E Flynn, Gordon J Labow, Robert A Beach, Michael A Rawlins, David E Flittner

1996/10/20

Applied optics

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6076-6083

Optical Society of America

Inexpensive devices to measure solar UV irradiance are available to monitor atmospheric
ozone, for example, total ozone portable spectroradiometers (TOPS instruments). A
procedure to convert these measurements into ozone estimates is examined. For well-
characterized filters with 7-nm FWHM bandpasses, the method provides ozone values (from
304-and 310-nm channels) with less than 0.4% error attributable to inversion of the
theoretical model. Analysis of sensitivity to model assumptions and parameters yields ...