IGY Calendar Record: Ozone Instruction Manual

Part 1. IGY Calendar Record

Preface

I Introduction

II Description of Chart Page

III Arrangement of Highlights for each Day

IV Detailed List of Solar Flares

V Description of Supplementary Tables

VI Analysis Intervals

Calendar Record, Chart Pages and Highlights

Supplementary Tables


1 IGY Calendar


2 IGY Solar Alerts


3 IGY Special World Intervals


4 Additional Auroral Indices


5 Blackout Indices


6 E-Layer Indices


7 F2 Disturbance Indices


8 Polar Cap Absorption Events

Appendix

Part II. Determination of Constants Used in the Calculation of the Amount of Ozone from Spectrophotometer Measurements and an Analysis of the Accuracy of the Results


1. Introduction


1.1 Object of this Report


1.2 The 1957 Series of Observations at Oxford


1.3 Procedure


1.4 Accuracy of the Measurements


2. Measurements Using Direct Sunlight


2.1 Molecular Scattering Coefficients of Air


2.2 Calculation of the Pathlength of Sunlight through the Ozone Region


2.3 Extra-terrestrial Constant


2.4 Absorption Coefficients of Ozone


2.5 Accuracy of Direct Sun Observations of Ozone


2.6 Atmospheric Haze


3. Observations on the Zenith Blue Sky


3.1 Construction of the Charts for the Zenith Blue Sky


3.2 Observations on the Zenith Blue Sky with the AD Wavelengths


3.3 Observations on the Zenith Blue Sky using the C and C Wavelengths


4. Observations on the Cloudy Zenith Sky


4.1 Measurements using the Light from the Cloudy Zenith Sky and the A and D Wavelengths


4.2 Measurements using the Light from the Cloudy Zenith Sky with the C and C Wavelengths


4.3 The Cumulus Effect


4.4 Comparison of Cloudy Zenith Measurements with AD and CC Wavelengths