During the POLARIS campaign, UAF launched forty ozone
sounding balloons that measured the vertical distribution of ozone over Fairbanks Alaska. This study was a collaboration between NOAA-CMDL (the group of Samuel Oltmans and Bryan Johnson) and Dan Jaffe, Jen Kelley, and Bill Simpson at the Geophysical Institute, UAF. The archived data are available on the web. These ozone soundings provided a background of seasonal trends in ozone above Fairbanks before the TOMS3F campaign. While the POLARIS campaign was not specifically designed to intercompare various methods of measuring ozone, the data did provide an initial set of comparisons between these methods. The results of this intercomparison were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Lloyd, S., W.H. Swartz, T. Kusterer, D. Anderson, C.T. McElroy, C. Midwinter, R. Hall, K. Nassim, D. Jaffe, W. Simpson, J. Danielson, D. Griffin, B. Johnson, D. Quincy, S. Oltmans, P. Newman, R. McPeters, G. Labow, L. Moy, C. Seftor, and G. Toon, Total ozone observations and trend at Fairbanks during POLARIS, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D21), 26767-26778, 1999.