Three years of ground-based total ozone measurements in the Arctic: Comparison with OMI, GOME and SCIAMACHY satellite data

Continuous ground-based total ozone measurements were carried out at Ny-Ålesund (78.9°N, 11.9° E, Svalbard islands, Norway), by using a Brewer spectrophotometer, for almost three years (2007–2009). Given the scarcity of high-quality ground-based measurements performed at high latitudes, this dataset provides a rare opportunity to check the quality of satellite-based data recorded in Arctic. Considering the unprecedented Artic ozone loss recently derived from satellite observations, assessing the reliability of satellite readings at such high latitudes is a timely effort. This study focuses on the comparisons between ground-based Brewer total ozone measurements and satellite ozone readings retrieved from EOS Aura Ozone Measurement Instrument (OMI) (by using OMI-TOMS and OMI-DOAS algorithms), retrieved from ERS-2 Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) (by using TOGOMI algorithm) and from Envisat SCanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer for Atmospheric CartographY (SCIAMACHY) (by using TOSOMI algorithm).