1. The Ozone Monitoring Instrument.
- Author
-
Levelt, Pieternel F., van den Oord, Gijsbertus H. J., Dobber, Marcel R., Mälkki, Anssi, Visser, Huib, de Vries, Johan, Stammes, Piet, Lundell, Jens O. V., and Saari, Heikki
- Subjects
- *
ARTIFICIAL satellites , *REMOTE sensing , *AIR quality , *ATMOSPHERIC research , *OZONE layer - Abstract
The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) flies on the National Aeronautics and Space Adminsitration's Earth Observing System Aura satellite launched in July 2004. OMI is a ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) nadir solar backscatter spectrometer, which provides nearly global coverage in one day with a spatial resolution of 13 km × 24 km. Trace gases measured include O3, NO2, SO2, HCHO, BrO, and OClO. In addition, OMI will measure aerosol characteristics, cloud top heights, and UV irradiance at the surface. OMI's unique capabilities for measuring important trace gases with a small footprint and daily global coverage will be a major contribution to our understanding of stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and climate change. OMI's high spatial resolution is unprecedented and will enable detection of air pollution on urban scale resolution. In this paper, the instrument and its performance will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2006
- Full Text
- View/download PDF