Abstract
Interest in remote measurements of ozone has been fueled in recent years by growing concerns about the potential destruction of the earth's protective ozone layer. The discovery of the Antarctic "ozone hole" that stimulated so much scientific activity was based on satellite measurements made from polar orbit by the ultraviolet Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS). But the global maps and animated imagery from TOMS have also revealed that large values of total ozone are commonly observed near active mid-latitude weather systems (Chesters and Krueger, 1989). It would seem therefore that ozone imagery, if properly interpreted, might also provide valuable insight into the kinematic processes that occur in the upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric environments of rapidly developing frontal zone disturbances and jet streaks (Uccellini et al., 1985, Shapiro et al., 1982).
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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