A portable ground-based instrument has been constructed for the automated measurement of vertical column abundances of a number of gases pertinent to stratospheric ozone chemistry. The instrumentation is described in this paper and results are presented from the first set of field measurements, made during the Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MANTRA) 1998 field campaign at Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, Canada. Zenith-sky spectra in the near ultraviolet and visible wavelength regions were recorded for a period of seven days, prior to and following the launch of the MANTRA balloon on 24 August 1998. The spectra were then analysed using the differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) technique in conjunction with a radiative transfer model to determine vertical column amounts of ozone and NO2. Ozone measurements compared favourably with concurrent observations by ozonesondes, a Brewer spectrophotometer, and satellite instruments. Vertical NO2 columns were in broad agreement with those determined by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) satellite instrument. RÉSUMÉ [Traduit par la rédaction] Un instrument terrestre portable a été construit pour mesurer automatiquement l’abondance, dans une colonne verticale, de divers gaz ayant un rôle à jouer dans la chimie de l’ozone stratosphérique. Cet article décrit l’instrumentation et présente les résultats du premier ensemble de mesures faites dans le cadre de l’étude sur le terrain de 1998 pour l’Évaluation des tendances de l'azote dans l'atmosphère moyenne (MANTRA), à Vanscoy, en Saskatchewan, au Canada. Des spectres du ciel au zénith dans les régions de longueurs d’ondes visible et proche-ultraviolet ont été enregistrés sur une période de sept jours, avant et après
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