Abstract
We present, to the best of our knowledge, a new method to retrieve tropospheric ozone profiles from ground-based ultraviolet spectroscopic measurements. This method utilizes radiance spectra in the Huggins bands measured at three off-axis angles (e.g., normalized to direct-Sun irradiances or zenith-sky radiances with the total column derived from direct-Sun or zenith-sky measurements as a constraint. The vertical resolution of the retrieved values ranges from near the surface to altitude. This method can be used to measure diurnal variation of tropospheric profiles and is complementary to the Umkehr method that mainly measures ozone profiles in the stratosphere.
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