Abstract

The mobile stratospheric ozone lidar system operating at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has been actively acquiring data at sites around the globe since 1987. It is a primary calibration instrument for the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC), traveling to various permanent network sites and carrying out ozone, temperature and aerosol comparisons with ground based remote sensing instruments. Since 1991, the system has also been an Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) validation instrument. In addition the instrument has been used as ground calibration for several aircraft missions. In 1995, the lidar group joined the science team for the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE)-II, and has since concentrated on acquiring lidar data coincident with SAGE-II overpasses. This paper will present comparison results from this past year, as well as from previous missions since 1989.

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