Lidar Measurements of Stratospheric Ozone During the Presence of an Anomalous Aerosol Profile

Abstract

This report briefly describes the ozone measurements made by the NASA/GSFC ozone lidar during an unusual case of locally high stratospheric aerosol loading. In this case, the high aerosol loading was associated with the plume from a Titan rocket launched from Vandenburg, AFB, which is about 200 km west-northwest of the JPL/Table Mountain Observatory, where the GSFC lidar was located on the night of November 6-7, 1988. The procedures which were used to determine the aerosol profile from the lidar data and to subsequently derive the ozone concentrations using this profile are presented.