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AN: A21D-1002    [PDF]
TI: Contributions of the Ozone Processing Team, OPT, to the Measurement of Ozone and Other Parameters From the Total Ozone Measuring Spectrometer Instruments
AU: * Fleig, A J
EM: fleig@comcast.net
AF: PITA Analytic Sciences, 8705 Burning Tree Road, Bethesda, MD 20817 United States
AB: In 1976 NASA organized an Ozone Processing Team (OPT) to support the Science Team selected for the Solar Backscattered UltraViolet / Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (SBUV/TOMS) instrument to be flown on the Nimbus-7 spacecraft. For 28 years the OPT has continued to support the original TOMS and four following instruments. OPT's successor the OMI Science Support Team (OSST) is now providing similar assistance for the Science Team responsible for the OMI instrument to be launched on the AURA spacecraft next year. Our experience has shown that in addition to the scientists selected for an instrument an entire team including analysts, engineers, programmers and processing systems specialists is required to produce a consistent high quality long-term data set for general science use. This paper will discuss the scientific, engineering and processing contributions the OPT has made to the development of data sets from the TOMS instrument family. It will also provide scientists proposing for future instruments with some insight as to variety of talents and the magnitude of tasks that must be accomplished to support the production of similar climate data sets.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE (New category)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting