Fig. 1. Flow chart of the inversion of ozone profile from limb radiance

Fig. 2. Absorption cross section of the ozone in Chappius-Wulf band

Fig. 3. Weighting functions of three wavelengths for wavelength pairing. (a) Weak short absorption wavelength; (b) strong absorption wavelength; (c) weak long absorption wavelength

Fig. 4. Radiation profiles before and after normalization of the three wavelengths with and without cloud conditions. (a) Radiation profile; (b) normalized radiation profile

Fig. 5. CTV after wavelength pairing. (a) Sensitivity of CTV to ozone number density; (b) CTV; (c) CTV under different aerosol conditions

Fig. 6. Ozone inversion results of different CTV. (a) Ozone number density; (b) relative errors

Fig. 7. Ozone inversion results with different iterations. (a) Ozone number density; (b) relative errors

Fig. 8. Ozone inversion results of different prior profiles. (a) Ozone number density; (b) relative errors

Fig. 9. Relative errors caused by different tangent height deviation

Fig. 10. Relative errors caused by different NO₂ concentration

Fig. 11. Twenty four ozone profiles of 49255 orbit (latitude:60° S-80° N). (a) Inversion ozone results of our method; (b) SCIAMACHY V3.5

Fig. 12. Comparison of ozone profiles in different latitudes. (a) 73.1° N, 291.5° E; (b) 34.8° N, 140.2° E; (c) 13.1° N, 134.8° E; (d) 1.4° S, 131.7° E; (e) 30.6° S, 124.8° E; (f) 59.4° S, 113.2° E