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Stratospheric ozone shields life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation and plays a crucial role in climate formation, while tropospheric ozone is a pollutant and greenhouse gas. Satellite methods based on measurements of outgoing thermal radiation are the only methods that provide information on global ozone distribution, independent of solar illumination. Since about 90% of atmospheric ozone is concentrated in the stratosphere, ozone total column measurements can be used as stratospheric ozone measurements. We present techniques for deriving information on total ozone columns (TOCs) and tropospheric ozone columns (TrOCs) from spectra of outgoing thermal radiation measured by the IKFS-2 instrument aboard the Meteor-M No. 2 satellite. The techniques are based on principal component analysis and the artificial neural network approach, providing high accuracy in TOC (less than 3%) and TrOC (within 2–4 DU) retrieval in accordance with the WMO requirements for the quality of satellite measurements.
Translated title of the contributionОценка общего и тропосферного озона с помощью инфракрасных измерений IKFS-2 на Метеоре-М № 2
Original languageEnglish
Article number16070777
Number of pages31
JournalATMOSPHERE
Volume16
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Jun 2025

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