The history of the Backscattered Ultraviolet Experiment (BUV) is recounted and related future efforts are discussed. Satellite measurement of backscattered UV radiation will be the major source of long-term global information about total ozone and ozone profiles for the rest of this century. These measurements started with the BUV experiment flown on Nimbus 4 from 1970 to 1977 and are presently being continued with the Solar and Backscattered Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (SBUV/TOMS) launched on Nimbus 7 in 1978. NOAA's improved version (SBUV/2) is to fly until sometime in the 1990s and NASA plans to fly an SBUV/2 on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite in 1989. Differences between these instruments and in the algorithms for deriving ozone amounts from these data sets are discussed.


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    Title :

    Backscattered ultraviolet measurements of ozone 1970-2000 - An overview


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    Publication date :

    1985-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English