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The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite

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Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing

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The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) is the next-generation US ozone monitoring system, designed for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The first flight of an OMPS is scheduled for late 2009 on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite. The OMPS is designed to replace both the NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and NOAA Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectrometer/2 (SBUV/2) systems. The OMPS has two instrument modules: a combined Nadir Mapper and Nadir Profiler, and a separate Limb Profiler.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, 20734, USA

    Dr. Lawrence E. Flynn (Staff Scientist)

  2. Raytheon, Information Technology and Scientific Services, Upper Marlboro, MD, 20774, USA

    Dr. Colin J. Seftor & Dr. Jack C. Larsen

  3. IM Systems Group, Inc., Kensington, MD, 20895, USA

    Dr. Philippe Xu

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, USA

    John J. Qu (Technical Director of EastFIRE Lab) (Technical Director of EastFIRE Lab)

  2. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, USA

    Wei Gao (Group Leader/Research Scientist) (Group Leader/Research Scientist)

  3. Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason University, USA

    Menas Kafatos (Director and Dean) (Director and Dean)

  4. School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, USA

    Menas Kafatos (Director and Dean) (Director and Dean)

  5. Code 920, NASA GSFC, NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), NOAA, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Robert E. Murphy (Project Scientist) (Project Scientist)

  6. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Vincent V. Salomonson (MODIS Science Team Leader) (MODIS Science Team Leader)

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Flynn, L.E., Seftor, C.J., Larsen, J.C., Xu, P. (2006). The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite. In: Qu, J.J., Gao, W., Kafatos, M., Murphy, R.E., Salomonson, V.V. (eds) Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37293-6_15

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