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Details of the design and performance of a UV absorption photometer used to measure ozone in the stratosphere from large balloons are given. Mechanisms which might cause a loss of ozone in the intrument are shown to be negligible. An analysis of errors obtains an instrumental precision that is better than 3 % and an accuracy less than 5 %. Improvements are being made that will increase the precision to about 1 % and the accuracy to 3 %. The NASA-JSC photometer has been intercompared with other techniques during several balloon campaigns. Agreement with other in-situ techniques was usually within 1 to 5 %, while agreement with remote techniques was typically in the range 10 to 15 %.
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Robbins, D.E. (1985). Balloon In-Situ Measurements of Ozone with the NASA-JSC UV Photometer. In: Zerefos, C.S., Ghazi, A. (eds) Atmospheric Ozone. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5313-0_93
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