Monitoring of ozone together with meteorological soundings

• Grant number: 93/04798-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 1994
• End date: September 30, 1995
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geophysics
• Principal Investigator: Ngan Andre Bui Van
• Grantee: Ngan Andre Bui Van
• Host Institution: Instituto de Pesquisas Meteorológicas (IPMET). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this project is to establish the means that make it possible to study the alteration in the ozone (O3) layers in the upper stratosphere and which can change the climate. The collaboration with the Service d’Aéronomie do Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in France, will make it possible to establish a study program of the mechanism that causes the variations in the density of ozone in the upper atmosphere. This program envisages an observation campaign, with three balloon launches, to measure, with a visible UV spectrometer, the atmospheric profiles of constituents such as O3, NOx, C10x. The information acquired will be compared with meteorological data in order to determine a possible correlation between the climatic alterations and the variations in the density of O3, being able, also, to complement the measurements taken on board satellites. (AU)