Brewer Data Management System (BDMS)

Proposed Brewer Workshop Tutorials

 

1.         Physical Basis of Ozone Measurement

 

*          Absorption

*          Beer’s Law

*          Non‑linearity

*          Differential Measurement (pairs, groups and SAGE)

*          Ozone DIAL

*          Infrared measurement

 

2.         UV Absorption Measurements

 

*          Choice of Wavelengths

*          Instrument Requirements

*          Errors in Measurement

*          Instrument Stray Light

*          Absorption Cross‑sections

 

3.         Spectrophotometer Principles

 

*          Prisms and Gratings

*          Theory of the Diffraction Grating

*          Spectrometer Layout

*          Brewer Design

*          Single Brewer Performance

*          Double Brewer Design

*          Double Brewer Performance

 

4.         Retrieval Theory

 

*          Simple linear theory

*          Relaxation method

*          Optimal Estimation

*          Multiple constraints

*          Spectral fitting

*          Differential Absorption Spectroscopy

*          Application and Performance of these methods

 

5.         Spectral UV Measurements

 

                        *          Techniques

                        *          Calibrations

                        *          Instrument characteristics (Temp, stray light corrections etc.)

                        *          Typical errors

 

 

6          Umkehr Method

 

                        *          Mateer and Dutsch

                        *          Mateer, Rodgers and Deluisi

                        *          Current work

 

7.         Ozone data centre

*          data types

*          Brewer Data Management System

 

8.         Measurement of Optical Depth

                        *          calibration

                        *          intercomparison

                        *          theory of measurement

                        *          accuracy

 

9.         Ozone Mapping and Intercomparison

                        *          indirect comparison of ground‑based instruments

                        *          comparisons with satellites

 

10.       Instrument Calibration

*          past

*          future