A Comparison of OMPS Total Column Ozone Data with Data from Ground Stations

The total column ozone dataset from Suomi NPP Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) has been recently reprocessed with new instrument calibrations. An overview will be presented systematically comparing ozone values to an ensemble of Brewer and Dobson spectrophotometers. The comparisons were made as a function of latitude, solar zenith angle, reflectivity and total ozone. The nadir mapper overpass data are derived from the single best match measurement, almost always located within one degree of the ground station and usually made within an hour and half of local noon. The total column ozone measurements from the Nadir Profiler instrument have also been compared to the ground-based measurements and these results will also be shown. An additional level 3 gridded product, 1 degree by 1 degree has been produced with corrections implemented in order to minimize the cross-track biases. This corrected data set yields a less noisy product and a smoother gridded ozone map.