Laboratory intercomparison of the ozone absorption coefficients in the mid-infrared (10 microm) and ultraviolet (300-350 nm) spectral regions

B Picquet-Varrault; J Orphal; J-F Doussin; P Carlier; J-M Flaud

doi:10.1021/jp0405411

Laboratory intercomparison of the ozone absorption coefficients in the mid-infrared (10 microm) and ultraviolet (300-350 nm) spectral regions

J Phys Chem A. 2005 Feb 17;109(6):1008-14. doi: 10.1021/jp0405411.

Authors

B Picquet-Varrault¹, J Orphal, J-F Doussin, P Carlier, J-M Flaud

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR-CNRS 7583, University of Paris 7 and Paris 12, 94010 Créteil cedex, France. picquet@lisa.univ-paris12.fr

PMID: 16833407
DOI: 10.1021/jp0405411

Abstract

For the measurement of atmospheric ozone concentrations, the mid-infrared and ultraviolet regions are both used by ground-, air-, or satellite-borne instruments. In this study we report the first laboratory intercomparison of the ozone absorption coefficients using simultaneous measurements in these spectral regions. The intercomparison shows good agreement (around 98.5%) between the HITRAN 2000 recommendation for the mid-infrared and the most reference measurements in the ultraviolet regions, whereas systematic differences of about 5.5% are observed when using the recommendation of HITRAN2003 for the mid-infrared. Possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed. Future measurements are clearly needed to resolve this issue.