Retrieval of Total Column Ozone From Imagers Onboard Geostationary Satellites

Geostationary imagers such as the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) proposed for the next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOESs), i.e., GOES Series R and beyond, and the spinning enhanced visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) onboard METEOSAT 8 provide atmospheric total column ozone (TCO) with high temporal (better than 15 min) and spatial (better than 5 km) resolutions. The purpose of this paper is to present a method that evolved from the current GOES sounder TCO retrieval that can be applied to ABI, with SEVIRI serving as a proxy for ABI. Although ABI and SEVIRI have fewer infrared spectral bands than the current series of GOES (-8 to -P) sounders, ABI and SEVIRI can provide TCO with an accuracy that is comparable to the current GOES sounder by using forecast temperature profiles as additional a priori information. Despite the need for additional data, the greatest advantage of ABI and SEVIRI is their fast 15-min coverage of the full disk. The SEVIRI TCO demonstrates how well geostationary imagers can capture ozone transport and change at high temporal and spatial resolutions. The estimated TCO has very good agreement (R = 0.92 and root-mean-square error = 3.7%) with the total ozone measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard the Earth Observing System aura platform.