Remote Sensing and Chemistry of Oxygen and Ozone

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite contributions about remote sensing and chemistry of oxygen and ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere, planetary atmospheres of the solar system, exoplanetary atmospheres, comets, starforming regions and other places in the universe. This Special Issue will reveal synergies and new aspects of the different remote sensing techniques and their applications. In the Earth’s atmosphere, long-term monitoring of the ozone layer is important for mankind, as well as remote sensing of tropospheric ozone. Oxygen and ozone are essential for biology, chemistry, energetics and the study of the dynamics of the Earth and its atmosphere. Remote sensing of oxygen isotopes enhances our knowledge about the circulation of the atmosphere and the age of air. Airglow and auroral emissions of atomic and molecular oxygen inform about tides, gravity waves, vertical winds, chemical and energetical processes in the middle and upper atmosphere. Indirect measurement of oxygen ions by incoherent scatter radars provides information about temperature, density and winds in the thermosphere and ionosphere. Oxygen and ozone are regarded as biosignatures, rendering the detection of oxygen and ozone in planetary and exoplanetary atmospheres an exciting challenge. The design of new space missions, telescopes, spectrometers and retrieval techniques for finding the weak signals of oxygen and ozone in space are driven by the search for extraterrestrial life and habitability.

Dr. Klemens Hocke
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• observations
• simulations
• remote sensing technique and in situ measurement
• retrieval technique
• cross-validation of remote sensing and chemical sensors
• science and applications
• atmospheric oxygen
• atmospheric ozone
• circulation, dynamics and energetics
• biology
• chemistry
• spectroscopy