TOLNET – A Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Profiling Network for Satellite Continuity and Process Studies

¹ Atmospheric Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
² NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wrightwood, CA 92397, USA
³ NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
⁴ Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
⁵ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
⁶ Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
⁷ NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 23681, USA
⁸ NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94031, USA
⁹ NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, USA

^* Corresponding author: mike@nsstc.uah.edu

Published online: 7 June 2016

Abstract

Ozone lidars measure continuous, high-resolution ozone profiles critical for process studies and for satellite validation in the lower troposphere. However, the effectiveness of lidar validation by using single-station data is limited. Recently, NASA initiated an interagency ozone lidar observation network under the name TOLNet to promote cooperative multiple-station ozone-lidar observations to provide highly timeresolved (few minutes) tropospheric-ozone vertical profiles useful for air-quality studies, model evaluation, and satellite validation. This article briefly describes the concept, stations, major specifications of the TOLNet instruments, and data archiving.