Ozone Monitoring Instrument
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OMI The Ozone Monitoring Instrument is on board the NASA
Aura
. OMI can distinguish between aerosol types, such as smoke, dust, and sulfates, and can measure cloud pressure and coverage, which provide data to derive tropospheric ozone
. OMI follows in the heritage of TOMS
, SBUV, GOME, SCIAMACHY
, and GOMOS. It is a nadir-viewing wide-field-imaging spectrometer giving daily global coverage. OMI is continuing the TOMS record for total ozone and other atmospheric parameters related to ozone chemistry and climate.
The OMI project is a cooperation between the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes
(NIVR), the Finnish Meteorological Institute
(FMI) and the National Aeronatautics and Space Agency (NASA).
The OMI project was carried out under the direction of the NIVR and financed by the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Transport and Public Works and the Ministry of Education and Science. The instrument was built by Dutch Space in co-operation with Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Science and Industry and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. The Finnish industry supplied the electronics. The scientific part of the OMI project is managed by KNMI (principal investigator Prof. Dr. P.F. Levelt), in close co-operation with NASA and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
Aura
Aura (satellite)
Aura is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. It is the third major component of the Earth Observing System following on Terra and Aqua...
. OMI can distinguish between aerosol types, such as smoke, dust, and sulfates, and can measure cloud pressure and coverage, which provide data to derive tropospheric ozone
Tropospheric ozone
Ozone is a constituent of the troposphere . Photochemical and chemical reactions involving it drive many of the chemical processes that occur in the atmosphere by day and by night...
. OMI follows in the heritage of TOMS
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer is a satellite instrument for measuring ozone values. It has been flown on NASA-satellites. Of the five TOMS instruments which were built, four entered successful orbit...
, SBUV, GOME, SCIAMACHY
SCIAMACHY
SCIAMACHY is one of ten instruments aboard of ESA's ENVIronmental SATellite, ENVISAT....
, and GOMOS. It is a nadir-viewing wide-field-imaging spectrometer giving daily global coverage. OMI is continuing the TOMS record for total ozone and other atmospheric parameters related to ozone chemistry and climate.
The OMI project is a cooperation between the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes
Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes
The Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes was the official space-exploration agency of the Dutch government until 2009....
(NIVR), the Finnish Meteorological Institute
Finnish Meteorological Institute
The Finnish Meteorological Institute is the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland. It is a part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications but it operates semi-autonomously....
(FMI) and the National Aeronatautics and Space Agency (NASA).
The OMI project was carried out under the direction of the NIVR and financed by the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Transport and Public Works and the Ministry of Education and Science. The instrument was built by Dutch Space in co-operation with Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek or TNO is a not-for-profit organization in the Netherlands that focuses on applied science. The main office of TNO is located in Delft...
Science and Industry and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. The Finnish industry supplied the electronics. The scientific part of the OMI project is managed by KNMI (principal investigator Prof. Dr. P.F. Levelt), in close co-operation with NASA and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.