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Index Terms

  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Middle atmosphere—composition and chemistry
  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Airglow and aurora
  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Transmission and scattering of radiation
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Radiative processes

Abstract

On the utility of the molecular oxygen dayglow emissions as proxies for middle atmospheric ozone

Martin G. Mlynczak

NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia

Daphne S. Olander

Science Applications International Corporation, Hampton, Virginia

The molecular oxygen dayglow emissions, O2(a1Δg → X3Σg) at 1.27 µm and O2(b1Σg → X3Σg) at 762 nm, arise in part from processes related to the Hartley band photolysis of ozone. It is therefore possible to derive daytime ozone concentrations from measurements of the volume emission rate of either dayglow. The accuracy to which the ozone concentration can be inferred depends on the accuracy to which numerous kinetic and spectroscopic rate constants are known, including rates which describe the excitation of molecular oxygen by processes that are not related to the ozone concentration. We find that several key rate constants must be known to better than 7% accuracy in order to achieve an inferred ozone concentration accurate to 15% from measurements of either dayglow. Currently, accuracies for various parameters typically range from 5% to 100%.

Received 20 January 1995; accepted 28 March 1995; .

Citation: Mlynczak, M. G., and D. S. Olander (1995), On the utility of the molecular oxygen dayglow emissions as proxies for middle atmospheric ozone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22(11), 1377–1380.

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