Abstract:
The knowledge of the absorption coefficients of ozone in the UV band is of major importance for the monitoring of the atmospheric ozone layer using the solar backscattering ultraviolet technique. In order to gain significant measurements of atmospheric ozone, accurate ozone absorption coefficients should be derived from the high accurate laboratory measurements of absorption cross-section of ozone. To make sure the absorption coefficients are be precise, in the present paper, we check and validate the now existing ozone coefficients bank in the American TOMRAD model using these high accurate and high resolution laboratory measurements data published in the international journals in the past few years . From 1980s, many papers on laboratory absorption cross of ozone measurement data with different spectrum resolution and measurement accuracy were published in all kinds of international journals. Among these, data from French Brion et al have much more higher spectrum resolution and measurement accuracy than others. First, we randomly selected some wavelengths from Hartley and Huggins band respectively. For every wavelength, we built the regression model of the ozone absorption cross-section to temperature with the widely used polynomial formulas and get the ozone absorption coefficients for these wavelengths. To check the now existing ozone absorption coefficients, we compared the calculated coefficients with that from the American TOMRAD model coefficient bank.
Second, to validate the coefficients of the TOMRAD model, at these randomly selected wavelengths, we calculated the ozone absorption cross-section under the same temperature with that of Ozone UV Spectroscopy. II. Absorption cross-sections and temperature dependence, and compared the calculated data with the laboratory measurement data in Ozone UV Spectroscopy. II. Absorption cross-sections and temperature dependence .The results show that the calculated cross-section at Hartley band using coefficients from the TOMRAD model is quite consistent with that laboratory measurement from Ozone UV Spectroscopy. II. Absorption cross-sections and temperature dependence, the variance at most randomly selected wavelengths is smaller than 3%; However, in the Huggins band, the variance at most wavelengths is much more bigger, at some wavelengths, the variance is bigger than 50%. Since, data from Ozone UV Spectroscopy. II. Absorption cross-sections and temperature dependence have higher spectrum resolution and accurate than that data by Bass and Paur , from which the now existing ozone absorption coefficients were drawn, we have reasons to suspect the validity of the now existing ozone absorption coefficients at some wavelength in Huggins band.