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Lower Tropospheric Ozone Measurements by Light Aircraft Equipped with Chemiluminescent Sonde. McKendry, Ian G.; Steyn, Douw G.; O'Kane, S.; Zawar-Reza, P.; Heuff, D.

Abstract

Novel use of a commercial, battery-powered, chemiluminescent ozonesonde on a light aircraft is described. This fast-response instrument, originally designed for balloon deployment into the stratosphere, is light, inexpensive, robust (reuseable), reliable, and accurate. Integration with other lightweight components (data logger, global positioning system, pressure, temperature, and humidity sensors) renders the system suitable for use in a light (rental) aircraft with no modification of the aircraft required. The system is well suited to routine reconnaissance and vertical profiling in regions of complex terrain, and with well-designed field studies, mass budget analyses are feasible. The application and validation of the system is described for the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, a region of complex coastal terrain where photochemical smog is a significant problem in the summer months. Copyright 1998 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.

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