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Comparison of ground-based Brewer and FTIR total O<sub>3</sub> monitoring techniques
M. Schneider
A. Redondas
F. Hase
C. Guirado
T. Blumenstock
E. Cuevas
IMK-ASF, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Observatorio Atmosférico de Izaña, Instituto Nacional de MeteorologÃa, Spain
We compare the currently most precise, ground-based total O<sub>3</sub>
measurement techniques: Brewer and FTIR. We give an overview of the
similarities and the differences between the measurements and the
retrieval approaches of both experiments. By means of coinciding
measurements performed at the Atmospheric Observatory of Izaña
from 2005 to 2007 we show that the small differences between both
techniques are in excellent agreement with the theoretical
predictions. Our empirical study confirms that both FTIR and Brewer
measurements are able to continuously monitor total O<sub>3</sub>
amounts with a precision of better than 0.4%.
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