One approach to remote sensing of total ozone content

The paper examines the possibility of using an approach based on the information-value equation to determine the total ozone content (TOC) in the atmosphere from measurements of IR outgoing radiation and scattered UV radiation without introducing a priori information. Specifically, attention is given to the inverse problem of determining the TOC from satellite measurements of outgoing IR radiation at 9.6 microns and scattered UV radiation at 0.25-0.31 micron. Errors due to the inadequacy of the statistics used are evaluated, and it is shown that the main error in determining the TOC is the bias error.