A. V. Poberovskii, A. V. Polyakov, Yu. M. Timofeev, A. E. Kovalev,
V. M. Prokhorov, A. Z. Khrustalev, V. A. Panchenko, I. I. Mansurov, and O. N. Volkov
Research Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Ul’yanovskaya ul. 1, Petrodvorets, 198904 Russia
Received February 11, 1998; in final form, March 17, 1998
Abstract—The instrumentation, interpretation procedure, and some examples of ozone profile retrieval in
space experiments with the Priroda module of the Mir space station are described. The Ozon–Mir spectrometer
measured solar radiation absorption along tangent paths in a large number of spectral channels within the range
from 265 to 1130 nm at sunsets. Different stages of telemetric information processing are considered. The
atmospheric radiative model used for computations and the algorithm of data inversion are discussed. Measure-
ments in oxygen absorption bands provided an independent way of referring the data of transmission function
measurements to heights. Errors in ozone content determination that are due to different factors are estimated.
By and large, the experimental results correlate well with climatic data. At the same time, significant variations
in the ozone content were observed. They may be explained by the natural variability of characteristics of atmo-
spheric gaseous composition and also by retrieval errors.
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