Calibration of Long Term Satellite Ozone Data Sets Using the Space Shuttle

Abstract

Trends in atmospheric ozone continue to be an environmental concern. Drifts in satellite observations are the major obstacle in the detection of changes in global ozone over the long term. Careful re-analysis of satellite ozone data along with groundbased observations have more or less corroborated photochemical models which predict ozone depletion [1]. However there remains margin of error in the observations that is as large as the trend itself.