Information Regarding TOTE-VOTE Images

In an attempt to make the airborne DIAL ozone and total scattering ratio images from this campaign easy to compare, the images were generated using a single color scale. The vertical and horizontal scale factors are also consistent between images.

VERTICAL RESOLUTION:

Vertical averaging interval
        Aerosol    225 meters
Ozone      750 meters

Vertical display interval for averaged data
        Aerosol    75 meters
Ozone      75 meters

HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION:

Horizontal averaging interval
        Aerosol    3 min., or approximately 42 km (except flight 18
which is 10 minutes, or approximately 140 km)

Ozone      5 min., or approximately 70 km

Horizontal display interval for averaged data
        Aerosol    20 sec., or approximately 4.66 km
Ozone      20 sec., or approximately 4.66 km

Times on the images are Universal Time (UT).

The GIF aerosol and ozone image dimensions are 1050 X 850 pixels in order to retain resolution. Your WWW browser/GIF viewer may handle the image in various ways. On displays of less than 1050 X 850 pixels the image may have to be scrolled or the image may get resized, losing some clarity of the fonts.

These airborne DIAL data images are to be used as a reference to the digital data archived at NASA Ames Research Center.  Please contact NASA Ames at email:  gaines@cloud1.arc.nasa.gov for access to TOTE-VOTE digital archived data. The images (both aerosol and ozone) viewed on this WWW page are from a full resolution data set, whereas, the digital data archived at AMES are a sub-sampled data set (1 profile/minute). If full resolution digital data are required, please contact the Lidar Applications Group.Images are not to be published without permission from NASA.

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