Ozone

The Ozone project focuses on the generation of multi-decadal time series of harmonised and consistent ozone data suitable to assess long-term changes in total ozone, as well as its vertical distribution.

About

Ozone is strongly linked to climate due to its influence on Earth’s radiative budget, absorbing solar UV radiation in the stratosphere and terrestrial infrared radiation in the troposphere. Due to these dual processes, the climate impact of changes in ozone concentrations varies with the altitude.

Human-produced chlorine and bromine-containing gases are responsible for major ozone losses in the lower atmosphere resulting in a cooling effect on the Earth's surface. In contrast, increases in tropospheric ozone, a result of air pollution, have a warming effect on the Earth's surface, thereby contributing to the greenhouse effect.

The Ozone project has been part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme since it was initiated in early 2010. This project focuses on the generation of multi-decadal time series of harmonised and consistent ozone data suitable to assess long-term changes in the total ozone column, the tropospheric ozone column as well as its vertical distribution across the UT/LS and stratosphere.

Ozone_CCI climate data records are based on satellite nadir sensors such as GOME, SCIAMACHY, GOME-2, IASI, OMI and TROPOMI complemented by a series of limb-viewing instruments allowing for a comprehensive characterization of the ozone columns and vertical profiles at various horizontal scales. These data products are freely distributed to the international user community and several of these feed the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

Main activities include

Development of state-of-the-art level-2 and level-3 ozone retrieval algorithms
Long-term data record generation and reprocessing of historical data sets
Data characterisation and uncertainty analysis including geophysical validation
Fully traceable documentation on all steps of the data generation
User assessment by the project Climate Research Group (CRG) and the Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG)

Objective

The Ozone CCI project’s objectives are:

Develop advanced level-2 and level-3 retrieval algorithms applicable to nadir and limb sensor types, and apply them to long times-series of measurements with the aim to realize the full potential of existing and historical sensors
Improve the information content of ozone measurements in critical altitude regions (troposphere and UTLS) using the synergy between nadir and limb-type sensors
Link European data records to historical non-European data series to create consistent long-series of observations covering several decades, as required for climate change-related studies
Bring a significant impact on ozone related research at the international level, through active involvement in the WMO/GAW Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, that are compiled every four years

Data

The latest global products are distributed on the Ozone_cci ftp site at the following address: ftp://cci_web@ftp-ae.oma.be/esacci

Note: to access the ozone data, preferably use an ftp client application (such as FileZilla or equivalent). The ftp site is also directly accessible via browser. In this case, a dialogue window will pop up to request a password. To proceed to the site, just click 'Enter' with a blank password.

A list of the currently available ozone data products is available here.

Warning: the ozone data products currently distributed through the ESA CCI Open Data Portal are outdated and superseded by data sets available from the project ftp site (level-2 products) or from the C3S Data Store (level-3 products). We are working on a revision of the Open Data Portal data base, which will be announced on this page as soon as it is ready.

Mean Total Ozone Column in Dobson Units (1979-2019) - interactive globe

Key Documents

Ozone_cci+ Phase 2 (2022-2024)

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (D2.1 ATBD) (Jan 2023)

Ozone_cci+ User Workshop 16-17 March 2021

Full Report
Event page including all workshop material

Ozone_cci+ Phase 1 (2019-2022)

User Requirement Document (D1.1 URD) (Mar 2021)
Algorithm Development Plan (D1.2 ADP) (Oct 2021)
Product Validation Plan (D1.3 PVP) (Dec 2020)
Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (D2.1 ATBD) (Nov 2021)
End to End ECV Uncertainty Budget (D2.2 E3UB) (Oct 2021)
System Specification Document (D3.1 SSD) (Apr 2022)
Product Validation and Intercomparison Report (D4.1 PVIR) (Jul 2022)
Product User Guide (D4.2 PUG) (Jun 2022)
Climate Assessment Report (D5.1 CAR) (Mar 2022)
Project Scientific Highlights (D6.4 PSH) (Oct 2020)

Ozone_cci Phase 2 (2014-2017)

User Requirement Document (D1.1 URD) (May 2016)
Product Specification Document (D1.2 PSD) (Dec 2017)
Comprehensive Error Characterization Report (D1.3 CECR) (Jan 2017)
Data Access Requirement Document (D1.4 DARD) (May 2016)
Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (D2.1 ATBD) (Dec 2017)
System Specification Document (D3.1 SSD) (Apr 2015)
System Verification Report (D3.2 SVR) (Oct 2015)
Product User Guide (D3.3 PUG) (May 2017)
Product Validation and Intercomparison Report (D4.1 PVIR) (Jul 2016)
Climate Assessment Report (D5.1 CAR) (May 2017)

Ozone_cci Phase 1 (2010-2014)

User Requirement Document (D1.1 URD) (Dec 2011)
Product Specification Document (D1.2 PSD) (Apr 2012)
Data Access Requirement Document (D1.3 DARD) (May 2011)
Product Validation Plan (D2.1 PVP) (Jan 2012)
Data base task 2 (D2.2 DBT2) (Feb 2012)
Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (D2.3 ATBD) (Jun 2014)
Product Validation and Algorithm Selection Report (D2.5 PVASR) (Jun 2014)
Input Output Data Definition Document (D2.8 IODD) (May 2013)
System Prototype Description (D3.1 SPD) (Dec 2013)
System Verification Report (D3.2 SVR) (May 2013)
Data base task 3 (D3.3 DBT3) (Nov 2012)
Product User Guide (D3.4 PUG) (Dec 2013)
Product Validation and Intercomparison Report (D4.1 PVIR) (Oct 2014)
Climate Assessment Report (D4.2 CAR) (Feb 2014)
System Requirement Document (D5.1 SRD) (Sep 2011)
System Specification Document (D5.2 SSD) (Sep 2012)

Team

The Ozone project team is a close collaboration between eight partners, led by

Science leader: Daan Hubert (BIRA-IASB)
Project manager: Nathalie Kalb (BIRA-IASB)

BIRA-IASB

Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Daan Hubert, Nathalie Kalb, Arno Keppens, Tijl Verhoelst, Jean-Christopher Lambert,
Jonas Vlietinck, Jeroen van Gent, Thomas Danckaert, Michel Van Roozendael

KNMI

Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands
Ronald van der A, Michiel van Weele, Jos de Laat

DLR

German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany
Diego Loyola, Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, Klaus-Peter Heue, Martin Dameris

RAL

Ruther Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK
Richard Siddans, Barry Latter, Brian Kerridge

ULB

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Pierre-François Coheur, Catherine Wespes, Daniel Hurtmans

FMI

Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Viktoria Sofieva, Monika Szelag, Risto Hänninen

IUP-UB

Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Alexei Rozanov, Carlo Arosio, Kai-Uwe Eichmann, Mark Weber

AUTH

Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dimitrios Balis, Katerina Garane, MariLiza Koukouli

Publications

Ozone team members have contributed to the following peer-reviewed publications and international assessment reports.

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

2023

Orfanoz-Cheuquelaf, A., Arosio, C., Rozanov, A., Weber, M., Ladstätter-Weißenmayer, A., Burrows, J. P., Thompson, A. M., Stauffer, R. M., and Kollonige, D. E.: Tropospheric ozone column dataset from OMPS-LP/OMPS-NM limb-nadir matching, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-87, accepted, 2023.

Sofieva, V. F., Szelag, M., Tamminen, J., Arosio, C., Rozanov, A., Weber, M., Degenstein, D., Bourassa, A., Zawada, D., Kiefer, M., Laeng, A., Walker, K. A., Sheese, P., Hubert, D., van Roozendael, M., Retscher, C., Damadeo, R., and Lumpe, J. D.: Updated merged SAGE-CCI-OMPS+ dataset for the evaluation of ozone trends in the stratosphere, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 1881–1899, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1881-2023, 2023.

Weber, M., Steinbrecht, W., Arosio, C., van der A, R., Frith, S. M., Anderson, J., Ciasto, L. M., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Davis, S., Degenstein, D., Fioletov, V. E., Froidevaux, L., Loyola, D., Rozanov, A., Sofieva, V., Tourpali, K., Wang, R., Warnock, T. and Wild, J. D.: Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104 (9), S94-S96, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1, 2023.

2022

Coldewey-Egbers, M., Loyola, D. G., Lerot, C., and Van Roozendael, M.: Global, regional and seasonal analysis of total ozone trends derived from the 1995–2020 GTO-ECV climate data record, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 6861–6878, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-6861-2022, 2022.

Godin-Beekmann, S., Azouz, N., Sofieva, V. F., Hubert, D., Petropavlovskikh, I., Effertz, P., Ancellet, G., Degenstein, D. A., Zawada, D., Froidevaux, L., Frith, S., Wild, J., Davis, S., Steinbrecht, W., Leblanc, T., Querel, R., Tourpali, K., Damadeo, R., Maillard Barras, E., Stübi, R., Vigouroux, C., Arosio, C., Nedoluha, G., Boyd, I., Van Malderen, R., Mahieu, E., Smale, D., and Sussmann, R.: Updated trends of the stratospheric ozone vertical distribution in the 60° S–60° N latitude range based on the LOTUS regression model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11657–11673, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11657-2022, 2022.

Hassler, B. and P. J. Young (Lead Authors), W. T. Ball, R. Damadeo, J. Keeble, E. Maillard Barras, V. Sofieva and G. Zeng, Update on Global Ozone: Past, Present, and Future, Chapter 3 in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022, GAW Report No. 278, 509 pp., https://csl.noaa.gov/assessments/ozone/2022, WMO, Geneva, 2022.

Keppens, A., Compernolle, S., Hubert, D., Verhoelst, T., Granville, J., and Lambert, J.-C.: Removing Prior Information from Remotely Sensed Atmospheric Profiles by Wiener Deconvolution Based on the Complete Data Fusion Framework, Remote Sens., 14, 2197, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14092197, 2022.

Mettig, N., Weber, M., Rozanov, A., Burrows, J. P., Veefkind, P., Thompson, A. M., Stauffer, R. M., Leblanc, T., Ancellet, G., Newchurch, M. J., Kuang, S., Kivi, R., Tully, M. B., Van Malderen, R., Piters, A., Kois, B., Stübi, R., and Skrivankova, P.: Combined UV and IR ozone profile retrieval from TROPOMI and CrIS measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 2955-2978, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2955-2022, 2022.

Sofieva, V. F., Hänninen, R., Sofiev, M., Szeląg, M., Lee, H. S., Tamminen, J., and Retscher, C.: Synergy of Using Nadir and Limb Instruments for Tropospheric Ozone Monitoring (SUNLIT), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3193–3212, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3193-2022, 2022.

Weber, M., Arosio, C., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Fioletov, V. E., Frith, S. M., Wild, J. D., Tourpali, K., Burrows, J. P., and Loyola, D.: Global total ozone recovery trends attributed to ozone-depleting substance (ODS) changes derived from five merged ozone datasets, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 6843-6859, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-6843-2022, 2022.

Weber, M., Steinbrecht, W., Arosio, C., van der A, R., Frith, S. M., Anderson, J., Ciasto, L. M., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Davis, S., Degenstein, D., Fioletov, V. E., Froidevaux, L., Hubert, D., Loyola, D., Roth, C., Rozanov, A., Sofieva, V., Tourpali, K., Wang, R., and Wild, J. D.: Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2021”], Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103 (8), S90-S92, https://doi.org/10.1175/2022BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, August 2022.

2021

Dameris, M., Loyola, D. G., Nützel, M., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Lerot, C., Romahn, F., and van Roozendael, M.: Record low ozone values over the Arctic in boreal spring 2020, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 617–633, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-617-2021, 2021.

Dameris, M., van Roozendael, M., van Weele, M., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Sofieva, V., Lambert, J.-C., Hubert, D., Kalb, N., and Retscher, C., Short report of the ESA Ozone_cci+ User Workshop (16-17 March 2021), SPARC newsletter n°57, 31-35, https://www.aparc-climate.org/publications/newsletter, 2021.

Hubert, D., Heue, K.-P., Lambert, J.-C., Verhoelst, T., Allaart, M., Compernolle, S., Cullis, P. D., Dehn, A., Félix, C., Johnson, B. J., Keppens, A., Kollonige, D. E., Lerot, C., Loyola, D., Maata, M., Mitro, S., Mohamad, M., Piters, A., Romahn, F., Selkirk, H. B., da Silva, F. R., Stauffer, R. M., Thompson, A. M., Veefkind, J. P., Vömel, H., Witte, J. C., and Zehner, C.: TROPOMI tropospheric ozone column data: geophysical assessment and comparison to ozonesondes, GOME-2B and OMI, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 7405–7433, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7405-2021, 2021.

Mettig, N., Weber, M., Rozanov, A., Arosio, C., Burrows, J. P., Veefkind, P., Thompson, A. M., Querel, R., Leblanc, T., Godin-Beekmann, S., Kivi, R., and Tully, M. B.: Ozone profile retrieval from nadir TROPOMI measurements in the UV range, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 6057–6082, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6057-2021, 2021.

Orfanoz-Cheuquelaf, A., Rozanov, A., Weber, M., Arosio, C., Ladstätter-Weißenmayer, A., and Burrows, J. P.: Total ozone column from Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper (OMPS-NM) measurements using the broadband weighting function fitting approach (WFFA), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 5771–5789, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5771-2021, 2021.

Sofieva, V. F., Szeląg, M., Tamminen, J., Kyrölä, E., Degenstein, D., Roth, C., Zawada, D., Rozanov, A., Arosio, C., Burrows, J. P., Weber, M., Laeng, A., Stiller, G. P., von Clarmann, T., Froidevaux, L., Livesey, N., van Roozendael, M., and Retscher, C.: Measurement report: regional trends of stratospheric ozone evaluated using the MErged GRIdded Dataset of Ozone Profiles (MEGRIDOP), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 6707–6720, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6707-2021, 2021.

Sofieva, V. F., Lee, H. S., Tamminen, J., Lerot, C., Romahn, F., and Loyola, D. G.: A method for random uncertainties validation and probing the natural variability with application to TROPOMI on board Sentinel-5P total ozone measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2993–3002, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2993-2021, 2021.

Weber M., Steinbrecht W., Arosio C., van der A R., Frith S. M., Anderson J., Castia L., Coldewey-Egbers M., Davis S., Degenstein D., Fioletov V. E., Froidevaux L., Hubert D., Loyola D., Roth C., Rozanov A., Sofieva V., Tourpali K., Wang R., Wild J. D. : Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2020“]. Bull. Amer. Meteor., 102 (8), S92–S95, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0098.1, 2021.

2020

Coldewey-Egbers, M., Loyola, D. G., Labow, G., and Frith, S. M.: Comparison of GTO-ECV and adjusted MERRA-2 total ozone columns from the last 2 decades and assessment of interannual variability, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1633–1654, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1633-2020, 2020.

Loyola, D. G., Xu, J., Heue, K.-P., and Zimmer, W.: Applying FP_ILM to the retrieval of geometry-dependent effective Lambertian equivalent reflectivity (GE_LER) daily maps from UVN satellite measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 985–999, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-985-2020, 2020.

Paschou, P., Koukouli, M.-E., Balis, D., Lerot, C., and M. Van Roozendael: The effect of considering polar vortex dynamics in the validation of satellite total ozone observations. Atmospheric Research, 238, 104870, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104870, 2020.

Sofiev, M., Kouznetsov, R., Hänninen, R., and Sofieva, V. F.: Technical note: Intermittent reduction of the stratospheric ozone over northern Europe caused by a storm in the Atlantic Ocean, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 1839–1847, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-1839-2020, 2020.

Szeląg, M. E., Sofieva, V. F., Degenstein, D., Roth, C., Davis, S., and Froidevaux, L.: Seasonal stratospheric ozone trends over 2000–2018 derived from several merged data sets, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 7035–7047, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7035-2020, 2020.

Weber, M., W. Steinbrecht, C. Arosio, R. van der A, S. M. Frith, J. Anderson, M. Coldewey-Egbers, S. Davis, D. Degenstein, V. E. Fioletov, L. Froidevaux, D. Hubert, C. S. Long, D. Loyola, A. Rozanov, C. Roth, V. Sofieva, K. Tourpali, R. Wang, and J. D. Wild: Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2019"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor., 101 (8), S78–S81, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0104.1, 2020.

2019

Arosio, C., Rozanov, A., Malinina, E., Weber, M., and Burrows, J. P.: Merging of ozone profiles from SCIAMACHY, OMPS and SAGE II observations to study stratospheric ozone changes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 2423–2444, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2423-2019, 2019.

Galytska, E., Rozanov, A., Chipperfield, M. P., Dhomse, Sandip. S., Weber, M., Arosio, C., Feng, W., and Burrows, J. P.: Dynamically controlled ozone decline in the tropical mid-stratosphere observed by SCIAMACHY, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 767-783, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-767-2019, 2019.

Garane, K., Koukouli, M.-E., Verhoelst, T., Lerot, C., Heue, K.-P., Fioletov, V., Balis, D., Bais, A., Bazureau, A., Dehn, A., Goutail, F., Granville, J., Griffin, D., Hubert, D., Keppens, A., Lambert, J.-C., Loyola, D., McLinden, C., Pazmino, A., Pommereau, J.-P., Redondas, A., Romahn, F., Valks, P., Van Roozendael, M., Xu, J., Zehner, C., Zerefos, C., and Zimmer, W.: TROPOMI/S5P total ozone column data: global ground-based validation and consistency with other satellite missions, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5263–5287, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5263-2019, 2019.

Inness, A., Flemming, J., Heue, K.-P., Lerot, C., Loyola, D., Ribas, R., Valks, P., van Roozendael, M., Xu, J., and Zimmer, W.: Monitoring and assimilation tests with TROPOMI data in the CAMS system: near-real-time total column ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 3939–3962, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3939-2019, 2019.

Keppens, A., Compernolle, S., Verhoelst, T., Hubert, D., and Lambert, J.-C.: Harmonization and comparison of vertically resolved atmospheric state observations: methods, effects, and uncertainty budget, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 4379–4391, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4379-2019, 2019.

SPARC/IO3C/GAW, 2019: SPARC/IO3C/GAW Report on Long-term Ozone Trends and Uncertainties in the Stratosphere. I. Petropavlovskikh, S. Godin-Beekmann, D. Hubert, R. Damadeo, B. Hassler, V. Sofieva (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 9, GAW Report No. 241, WCRP-17/2018, https://doi.org/10.17874/f899e57a20b, available at www.sparc-climate.org/publications/sparc-reports.

van Peet, J. C. A. and van der A, R. J.: Deriving tropospheric ozone from assimilated profiles, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 8297-8309, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8297-2019, 2019.

Weber, M., Steinbrecht, W., Arosio, C., van der A, R., Frith, S. M., Anderson, J., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Davis, S., Degenstein, D., Fioletov, V. E., Froidevaux, L., Hubert, D., Long, C. S., Loyola, D., Rozanov, A., Roth, C., Sofieva, V., Tourpali, K., Wang, R. and Wild, J. D.: Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., S54-56, Vol. 100, No. 9, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMSD-20-0104.1, 2019.

Wespes, C., Hurtmans, D., Chabrillat, S., Ronsmans, G., Clerbaux, C., and Coheur, P.-F.: Is the recovery of stratospheric O3 speeding up in the Southern Hemisphere? An evaluation from the first IASI decadal record (2008–2017), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 14031–14056, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14031-2019, 2019.

2018

Arosio, C., Rozanov, A., Malinina, E., Eichmann, K.-U., von Clarmann, T., and Burrows, J. P.: Retrieval of ozone profiles from OMPS limb scattering observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 2135-2149, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2135-2018, 2018.

Ball, W. T., Alsing, J., Mortlock, D. J., Staehelin, J., Haigh, J. D., Peter, T., Tummon, F., Stübi, R., Stenke, A., Anderson, J., Bourassa, A., Davis, S. M., Degenstein, D., Frith, S., Froidevaux, L., Roth, C., Sofieva, V., Wang, R., Wild, J., Yu, P., Ziemke, J. R., and Rozanov, E. V.: Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1379-1394, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1379-2018, 2018.

Braesicke, P. and J. Neu (Lead Authors), V. Fioletov, S. Godin-Beekmann, D. Hubert, I. Petropavlovskikh, M. Shiotani, and B.-M. Sinnhuber, Update on Global Ozone: Past, Present, and Future, Chapter 3 in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project–Report No. 58, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland, https://csl.noaa.gov/assessments/ozone/2018, 2018.

Boynard, A., Hurtmans, D., Garane, K., Goutail, F., Hadji-Lazaro, J., Koukouli, M. E., Wespes, C., Vigouroux, C., Keppens, A., Pommereau, J.-P., Pazmino, A., Balis, D., Loyola, D., Valks, P., Sussmann, R., Smale, D., Coheur, P.-F., and Clerbaux, C.: Validation of the IASI FORLI/EUMETSAT ozone products using satellite (GOME-2), ground-based (Brewer–Dobson, SAOZ, FTIR) and ozonesonde measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 5125-5152, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5125-2018, 2018.

Garane, K., Lerot, C., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Verhoelst, T., Koukouli, M. E., Zyrichidou, I., Balis, D. S., Danckaert, T., Goutail, F., Granville, J., Hubert, D., Keppens, A., Lambert, J.-C., Loyola, D., Pommereau, J.-P., Van Roozendael, M., and Zehner, C.: Quality assessment of the Ozone_cci Climate Research Data Package (release 2017) – Part 1: Ground-based validation of total ozone column data products, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 1385-1402, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1385-2018, 2018.

Gaudel, A, et al.: Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day distribution and trends of tropospheric ozone relevant to climate and global atmospheric chemistry model evaluation. Elem Sci An th, 6: 39, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.291, 2018.

Keppens, A., Lambert, J.-C., Granville, J., Hubert, D., Verhoelst, T., Compernolle, S., Latter, B., Kerridge, B., Siddans, R., Boynard, A., Hadji-Lazaro, J., Clerbaux, C., Wespes, C., Hurtmans, D. R., Coheur, P.-F., van Peet, J. C. A., van der A, R. J., Garane, K., Koukouli, M. E., Balis, D. S., Delcloo, A., Kivi, R., Stübi, R., Godin-Beekmann, S., Van Roozendael, M., and Zehner, C.: Quality assessment of the Ozone_cci Climate Research Data Package (release 2017) – Part 2: Ground-based validation of nadir ozone profile data products, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 3769-3800, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3769-2018, 2018.

van Peet, J. C. A., van der A, R. J., Kelder, H. M., and Levelt, P. F.: Simultaneous assimilation of ozone profiles from multiple UV-VIS satellite instruments, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1685-1704, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1685-2018, 2018.

Weber, M., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Fioletov, V. E., Frith, S. M., Wild, J. D., Burrows, J. P., Long, C. S., and Loyola, D.: Total ozone trends from 1979 to 2016 derived from five merged observational datasets – the emergence into ozone recovery, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 2097-2117, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-2097-2018, 2018.

Weber, M., Steinbrecht, W., van der A, R., Frith, S. M., Anderson, J., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Davis, S., Degenstein, D., Fioletov, V. E., Froidevaux, L., Hubert, D., de Laat, J., Long, C. S., Loyola, D., Sofieva, V., Tourpali, K., Roth, C., Wang, R., and Wild, J. D.: Stratospheric ozone [in "State of the Climate in 2017"], Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, S51-S54, https://doi.org/10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, 2018.

2017

Chipperfield, M. P., Bekki, S., Dhomse, S., Harris, N. R. P., Hassler, B., Hossaini, R., Steinbrecht, W., Thiéblemont, R. and Weber, M.: Detecting recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer, Nature, 549, 211–218, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23681, 2017.

de Laat, A. T. J., van Weele, M., and van der A, R. J., Onset of stratospheric ozone recovery in the Antarctic ozone hole in assimilated daily total ozone columns. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 11,880–11,899. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025723, 2017

Lauer, A., V. Eyring, M. Righi, M. Buchwitz, P. Defourny, M. Evaldsson, P. Friedlingstein, R. de Jeu, G. de Leeuw, A. Loew, C. J. Merchant, B. Müller; T. Popp, M. Reuter, S. Sandven, D. Senftleben, M. Stengel, M. Van Roozendael, S. Wenzel, U. Willén, Benchmarking CMIP5 models with a subset of ESA CCI Phase 2 data using the ESMValTool, Remote Sens. Environ., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.007, 2017.

Merchant, C. J., Paul, F., Popp, T., Ablain, M., Bontemps, S., Defourny, P., Hollmann, R., Lavergne, T., Laeng, A., de Leeuw, G., Mittaz, J., Poulsen, C., Povey, A. C., Reuter, M., Sathyendranath, S., Sandven, S., Sofieva, V. F., and Wagner, W.: Uncertainty information in climate data records from Earth observation, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 511-527, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-511-2017, 2017.

Sofieva, V. F., Kyrölä, E., Laine, M., Tamminen, J., Degenstein, D., Bourassa, A., Roth, C., Zawada, D., Weber, M., Rozanov, A., Rahpoe, N., Stiller, G., Laeng, A., von Clarmann, T., Walker, K. A., Sheese, P., Hubert, D., van Roozendael, M., Zehner, C., Damadeo, R., Zawodny, J., Kramarova, N., and Bhartia, P. K.: Merged SAGE II, Ozone_cci and OMPS ozone profile dataset and evaluation of ozone trends in the stratosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 12533-12552, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12533-2017, 2017.

Weber, M., W. Steinbrecht, S. M. Frith, O. Tweedy, M. Coldewey-Egbers, S. Davis, D. Degenstein, Y. E. Fioletov, L. Froidevaux, J. de Laat, C. S. Long, D. Loyola, C. Roth, and J. D. Wild, Stratospheric ozone [in "State of the Climate in 2016"], Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, S49-S51, https://doi.org/10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, 2017.

2016

Boynard, A., Hurtmans, D., Koukouli, M. E., Goutail, F., Bureau, J., Safieddine, S., Lerot, C., Hadji-Lazaro, J., Wespes, C., Pommereau, J.-P., Pazmino, A., Zyrichidou, I., Balis, D., Barbe, A., Mikhailenko, S. N., Loyola, D., Valks, P., Van Roozendael, M., Coheur, P.-F., and Clerbaux, C.: Seven years of IASI ozone retrievals from FORLI: validation with independent total column and vertical profile measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4327-4353, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4327-2016, 2016.

Dragani, R.: A comparative analysis of UV nadir-backscatter and infrared limb-emission ozone data assimilation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 8539-8557, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8539-2016, 2016.

Heue, K.-P., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Delcloo, A., Lerot, C., Loyola, D., Valks, P., and van Roozendael, M.: Trends of tropical tropospheric ozone from 20 years of European satellite measurements and perspectives for the Sentinel-5 Precursor, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5037-5051, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5037-2016, 2016.

Hubert, D., Lambert, J.-C., Verhoelst, T., Granville, J., Keppens, A., Baray, J.-L., Bourassa, A. E., Cortesi, U., Degenstein, D. A., Froidevaux, L., Godin-Beekmann, S., Hoppel, K. W., Johnson, B. J., Kyrölä, E., Leblanc, T., Lichtenberg, G., Marchand, M., McElroy, C. T., Murtagh, D., Nakane, H., Portafaix, T., Querel, R., Russell III, J. M., Salvador, J., Smit, H. G. J., Stebel, K., Steinbrecht, W., Strawbridge, K. B., Stübi, R., Swart, D. P. J., Taha, G., Tarasick, D. W., Thompson, A. M., Urban, J., van Gijsel, J. A. E., Van Malderen, R., von der Gathen, P., Walker, K. A., Wolfram, E., and Zawodny, J. M.: Ground-based assessment of the bias and long-term stability of 14 limb and occultation ozone profile data records, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2497-2534, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2497-2016, 2016.

Kauppi, A., Tuinder, O. N. E., Tukiainen, S., Sofieva, V., and Tamminen, J.: Comparison of GOME-2/Metop-A ozone profiles with GOMOS, OSIRIS and MLS measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 249-261, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-249-2016, 2016.

Koukouli, M. E., Zara, M., Lerot, C., Fragkos, K., Balis, D., van Roozendael, M., Allart, M. A. F., and van der A, R. J.: The impact of the ozone effective temperature on satellite validation using the Dobson spectrophotometer network, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2055-2065, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2055-2016, 2016.

Meul, S., M. Dameris, U. Langematz, J. Abalichin, A. Kerschbaumer, A. Kubin, and S. Oberländer-Hayn, Impact of rising greenhouse gas concentrations on future tropical ozone and UV exposure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 2919-2927, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL067997, 2016.

Safieddine, S., Boynard, A., Hao, N., Huang, F., Wang, L., Ji, D., Barret, B., Ghude, S. D., Coheur, P.-F., Hurtmans, D., and Clerbaux, C.: Tropospheric ozone variability during the East Asian summer monsoon as observed by satellite (IASI), aircraft (MOZAIC) and ground stations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10489–10500, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10489-2016, 2016.

Weber, M., W. Steinbrecht, C. Roth, M. Coldewey-Egbers, D. Degenstein, Y. E. Fioletov, S. M. Frith, L. Froidevaux, J. de Laat, C. S. Long, D. Loyola, and J. D. Wild: Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2015”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97 (8), S49-S51, https://doi.org/10.1175/2016BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, 2016.

Wespes, C., Hurtmans, D., Emmons, L. K., Safieddine, S., Clerbaux, C., Edwards, D. P., and Coheur, P.-F.: Ozone variability in the troposphere and the stratosphere from the first 6 years of IASI observations (2008–2013), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 5721-5743, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5721-2016, 2016.

2015

Coldewey-Egbers, M., Loyola, D. G., Koukouli, M., Balis, D., Lambert, J.-C., Verhoelst, T., Granville, J., van Roozendael, M., Lerot, C., Spurr, R., Frith, S. M., and Zehner, C.: The GOME-type Total Ozone Essential Climate Variable (GTO-ECV) data record from the ESA Climate Change Initiative, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3923-3940, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3923-2015, 2015.

Keppens, A., Lambert, J.-C., Granville, J., Miles, G., Siddans, R., van Peet, J. C. A., van der A, R. J., Hubert, D., Verhoelst, T., Delcloo, A., Godin-Beekmann, S., Kivi, R., Stübi, R., and Zehner, C.: Round-robin evaluation of nadir ozone profile retrievals: methodology and application to MetOp-A GOME-2, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2093-2120, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2093-2015, 2015.

Koukouli, M., D. Balis, I. Zyrichidou, C. Lerot, M. Van Roozendael, J-C. Lambert, J. Granville, J-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, G. Labow, S. Frith, D. Loyola, R. Spurr, and C. Zehner, Evaluating a new homogeneous total ozone climate data record from GOME/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/Envisat, and GOME-2/MetOp-A, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120(23), 12,212–296,312, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023699, 2015.

Laeng, A.; Hubert, D.; Verhoelst, T.; von Clarmann, T.; Dinelli, B.M.; Dudhia, A.; Raspollini, P.; Stiller, G.; Grabowski, U.; Keppens, A.; Kiefer, M. ; Sofieva, V.; Froidevaux, L.; Walker, K.; Lambert, J.-C.; Zehner, C., The ozone climate change initiative: Comparison of four Level-2 processors for the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS), Remote Sens. Environ., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.013, 2015.

Miles, G. M., Siddans, R., Kerridge, B. J., Latter, B. G., and Richards, N. A. D.: Tropospheric ozone and ozone profiles retrieved from GOME-2 and their validation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 385-398, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-385-2015, 2015.

Rahpoe, N., Weber, M., Rozanov, A. V., Weigel, K., Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Laeng, A., Stiller, G., von Clarmann, T., Kyrölä, E., Sofieva, V. F., Tamminen, J., Walker, K., Degenstein, D., Bourassa, A. E., Hargreaves, R., Bernath, P., Urban, J., and Murtagh, D. P., Relative drifts and biases between six ozone limb satellite measurements from the last decade, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 4369-4381, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4369-2015, 2015.

Sheese, P. E., Boone, C. D., and Walker, K. A.: Detecting physically unrealistic outliers in ACE-FTS atmospheric measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 741–750, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-741-2015, 2015.

van der A, R. J., Allaart, M. A. F., and Eskes, H. J.: Extended and refined multi sensor reanalysis of total ozone for the period 1970–2012, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3021–3035, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3021-2015, 2015.

Verhoelst, T., Granville, J., Hendrick, F., Köhler, U., Lerot, C., Pommereau, J.-P., Redondas, A., Van Roozendael, M., and Lambert, J.-C.: Metrology of ground-based satellite validation: co-location mismatch and smoothing issues of total ozone comparisons, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 5039–5062, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5039-2015, 2015.

Weber, M., W. Steinbrecht, C. Roth, M. Coldewey-Egbers, R. J. van der A, D. Degenstein, V. E. Fioletov, S. M. Frith, L. Froidevaux, C. S. Long, D. Loyola, and J. D. Wild: Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2014”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96 (7), S44-S46, https://doi.org/10.1175/2015BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, 2015.

Zhang, Y., Y. Liu, C. Liu, and V. F. Sofieva: Satellite measurements of the Madden–Julian oscillation in wintertime stratospheric ozone over the Tibetan Plateau and East Asia, Adv. Atmos. Sci., 32(11), 1481–1492, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-015-5005-y, 2015.

2014

Adams, C., A. E. Bourassa, V. Sofieva, L. Froidevaux, C. A. McLinden, D. Hubert, J. -C. Lambert, C. E. Sioris, and D. A. Degenstein, Assessment of Odin-OSIRIS ozone measurements from 2001 to the present using MLS, GOMOS, and ozone sondes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 49-64, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-49-2014, 2014.

Aschmann, J., Burrows, J. P., Gebhardt, C., Rozanov, A., Hommel, R., Weber, M., and Thompson, A. M., On the hiatus in the acceleration of tropical upwelling since the beginning of the 21st century, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 12803-12814, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12803-2014, 2014.

Chiou, E. W., Bhartia, P. K., McPeters, R. D., Loyola, D. G., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Fioletov, V. E., Van Roozendael, M., Spurr, R., Lerot, C., and Frith, S. M.: Comparison of profile total ozone from SBUV (v8.6) with GOME-type and ground-based total ozone for a 16-year period (1996 to 2011), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 1681-1692, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1681-2014, 2014.

Coldewey-Egbers, M., Loyola R., D. G., Braesicke, P., Dameris, M., Van Roozendael, M., Lerot, C., and Zimmer, W., A new health check of the ozone layer at global and regional scales. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol.41, pp. 4363-4372, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060212, 2014.

Ebojie, F., von Savigny, C., Ladstätter-Weißenmayer, A., Rozanov, A., Weber, M., Eichmann, K., Bötel, S., Rahpoe, N., Bovensmann, H., and Burrows, J. P., Tropospheric column amount of ozone retrieved from SCIAMACHY limb-nadir-matching observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2073-2096, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2073-2014, 2014.

Eckert, E., T. von Clarmann, M. Kiefer, G. P. Stiller, S. Lossow, N. Glatthor, D. A. Degenstein, L. Froidevaux, S. Godin-Beekmann, T. Leblanc, S. McDermid, M. Pastel, W. Steinbrecht, D. P. J. Swart, K. A. Walker, and P. F. Bernath, Drift-corrected trends and periodic variations in MIPAS IMK/IAA ozone measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 2571-2589, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2571-2014, 2014.

Gebhardt, C., Rozanov, A., Hommel, R., Weber, M., Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Degenstein, D., Froidevaux, L., and Thompson, A. M., Stratospheric ozone trends and variability as seen by SCIAMACHY during the last decade, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 831-846, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-831-2014, 2014.

Laeng, A., Grabowski, U., von Clarmann, T., Stiller, G., Glatthor, N., Höpfner, M., Kellmann, S., Kiefer, M., Linden, A., Lossow, S., Sofieva, V., Petropavlovskikh, I., Hubert, D., Bathgate, T., Bernath, P., Boone, C. D., Clerbaux, C., Coheur, P., Damadeo, R., Degenstein, D., Frith, S., Froidevaux, L., Gille, J., Hoppel, K., McHugh, M., Kasai, Y., Lumpe, J., Rahpoe, N., Toon, G., Sano, T., Suzuki, M., Tamminen, J., Urban, J., Walker, K., Weber, M., and Zawodny, J., Validation of MIPAS IMK/IAA V5R_O3_224 ozone profiles, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 3971-3987, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3971-2014, 2014.

Lerot, C., M. Van Roozendael, R. Spurr, D. Loyola, M. Coldewey-Egbers, S. Kochenova, J. van Gent, M. Koukouli, D. Balis, J.-C. Lambert, J. Granville, C. Zehner, Homogenized total ozone data records from the European sensors GOME/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/Envisat and GOME-2/Metop-A, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020831, 2014.

Pawson, S., and W. Steinbrecht (Lead Authors), A.J. Charlton-Perez, M. Fujiwara, A.Yu. Karpechko, I. Petropavlovskikh, J. Urban, and M. Weber, Update on global ozone: Past, present, and future, Chapter 2 in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2014, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project – Report No. 55, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, https://csl.noaa.gov/assessments/ozone/2014, 2014.

Safieddine, S., Boynard, A., Coheur, P.-F., Hurtmans, D., Pfister, G., Quennehen, B., Thomas, J. L., Raut, J.-C., Law, K. S., Klimont, Z., Hadji-Lazaro, J., George, M., and Clerbaux, C.: Summertime tropospheric ozone assessment over the Mediterranean region using the thermal infrared IASI/MetOp sounder and the WRF-Chem model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10119-10131, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-10119-2014, 2014.

Sioris, C. E., McLinden, C. A., Fioletov, V. E., Adams, C., Zawodny, J. M., Bourassa, A. E., Roth, C. Z., and Degenstein, D. A.: Trend and variability in ozone in the tropical lower stratosphere over 2.5 solar cycles observed by SAGE II and OSIRIS, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 3479–3496, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3479-2014, 2014.

Sofieva, V. F., Tamminen, J., Kyrölä, E., Mielonen, T., Veefkind, P., Hassler, B., and Bodeker, G.E.: A novel tropopause-related climatology of ozone profiles, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 283-299, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-283-2014, 2014.

Sofieva, V. F., Kalakoski, N., Päivärinta, S.-M., Tamminen, J., Laine, M., and Froidevaux, L.: On sampling uncertainty of satellite ozone profile measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 1891-1900, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1891-2014, 2014.

Sofieva, V. F., Tamminen, J., Kyrölä, E., Laeng, A., von Clarmann, T., Dalaudier, F., Hauchecorne, A., Bertaux, J.-L., Barrot, G., Blanot, L., Fussen, D. and Vanhellemont, F.: Validation of GOMOS ozone precision estimates in the stratosphere, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7(7), 2147-2158, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2147-2014, 2014.

Valks, P., Hao, N., Gimeno Garcia, S., Loyola, D., Dameris, M., Jöckel, P., and Delcloo, A., Tropical tropospheric ozone column retrieval for GOME-2, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2513-2530, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2513-2014, 2014.

van Peet, J. C. A., van der A, R. J., Tuinder, O. N. E., Wolfram, E., Salvador, J., Levelt, P. F., and Kelder, H. M.: Ozone ProfilE Retrieval Algorithm (OPERA) for nadir-looking satellite instruments in the UV–VIS, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 859-876, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-859-2014, 2014.

Weber, M., W. Steinbrecht, R. van der A, M. Coldewey-Egbers, V. E. Fioletov, S. M. Frith, C. S. Long, D. Loyola, and J. D. Wild : [Global climate] Stratospheric ozone [in “State of the Climate in 2013”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95 (7), S38-S40, https://doi.org/10.1175/2014BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, 2014.

2013

Adams, C., Bourassa, A. E., Bathgate, A. F., McLinden, C. A., Lloyd, N. D., Roth, C. Z., Llewellyn, E. J., Zawodny, J. M., Flittner, D. E., Manney, G. L., Daffer, W. H., and Degenstein, D. A.: Characterization of Odin-OSIRIS ozone profiles with the SAGE II dataset, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 1447–1459, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1447-2013, 2013.

Dameris, M. and P. Jöckel, Numerical modeling of climate-chemistry connections: Recent developments and future challenges, Atmosphere, 4, 132-156, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos4020132, 2013.

Kyrölä, E., M. Laine, V. Sofieva, J. Tamminen, S.-M. Päivärinta, S. Tukiainen, J. Zawodny, and L. Thomason, Combined SAGE II-GOMOS ozone profile data set 1984–2011 and trend analysis of the vertical distribution of ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 10645-10658, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10645-2013, 2013.

Rahpoe, N., von Savigny, C., Weber, M., Rozanov, A.V., Bovensmann, H., and Burrows, J. P.: Error budget analysis of SCIAMACHY limb ozone profile retrievals using the SCIATRAN model, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 2825-2837, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2825-2013, 2013.

Richards, N. A. D., Arnold, S. R., Chipperfield, M. P., Miles, G., Rap, A., Siddans, R., Monks, S. A., and Hollaway, M. J.: The Mediterranean summertime ozone maximum: global emission sensitivities and radiative impacts, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 2331–2345, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2331-2013, 2013.

Safieddine, S., C. Clerbaux, M. George, J. Hadji-Lazaro, D. Hurtmans, P.-F. Coheur, C. Wespes, D. Loyola, P. Valks, and N. Hao, Tropospheric ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements in urban and rural regions as seen by IASI and GOME-2, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 10,555–10,566, https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50669, 2013.

Sonkaew, T., C. von Savigny, K.-U. Eichmann, M. Weber, A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, and J. P. Burrows, Chemical ozone loss in Arctic and Antarctic polar winter/spring season derived from SCIAMACHY limb measurements 2002-2009, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1809-2013, 1809-1835, 2013.

Sofieva, V. F., Rahpoe, N., Tamminen, J., Kyrölä, E., Kalakoski, N., Weber, M., Rozanov, A., von Savigny, C., Laeng, A., von Clarmann, T., Stiller, G., Lossow, S., Degenstein, D., Bourassa, A., Adams, C., Roth, C., Lloyd, N., Bernath, P., Hargreaves, R. J., Urban, J., Murtagh, D., Hauchecorne, A., Dalaudier, F., van Roozendael, M., Kalb, N., and Zehner, C.: Harmonized dataset of ozone profiles from satellite limb and occultation measurements, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 349-363, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-349-2013, 2013.

Spurr, R., C. Lerot, V. Natraj, M. Van Roozendael, D. Loyola, Linearization of the Principal Component Analysis Method for Radiative Transfer Acceleration: Application to Retrieval Algorithms and Sensitivity Studies, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 125, 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2013.04.002, 2013.

2012

Braesicke, P., O. See Hai and A. Abu Samah, Properties of strong off-shore Borneo vortices: a composite analysis of flow pattern and composition as captured by ERA-Interim, Atmosph. Sci. Lett., 13, 128-132, https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.372, 2012.

Cai, D., M. Dameris, H. Garny, and T. Runde, Implications of all season Arctic sea-ice anomalies on the stratosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 11819-11831, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11819-2012, 2012.

Dameris, M., Loyola D., Recent and future evolution of the stratospheric ozone layer, in Atmospheric Physics: Background - Methods - Trends, U. Schumann (Ed), Springer, ISBN 978-3642301827, pp. 747-762, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30183-4_45, 2012.

Dameris, M. and M.P. Baldwin, Impact of climate change on the stratospheric ozone layer, Chapter 8 in Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change, Ed. Rolf Müller, Publisher: RSC Publishing, ISBN: 978-84973-318-2, https://doi.org/10.1039/9781849733182-00214, pp. 214-252, 2012.

Dameris, M. and D. Loyola, Recent and future evolution of the stratospheric ozone layer, Chapter 45 in Atmospheric Physics, Background-Methods-Trends, Ed. U. Schumann, Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, ISBN 978-3-642-30182-7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30183-4, pp.747-761, 2012.

Loyola, D.G., Coldewey-Egbers, M. Multi-sensor data merging with stacked neural networks for the creation of satellite long-term climate data records. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2012, 91, https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-6180-2012-91, 2012.

Mieruch, S., M. Weber, C. von Savigny, A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, L. Froidevaux, L. L. Gordley, M. G. Mlynczak, J. M. Russell III, L. W. Thomason, K. A. Walker, and J. M. Zawodny, Global and long-term comparison of SCIAMACHY limb ozone profiles with correlative satellite data (2002-2008), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 771-788, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-771-2012, 2012.

Miyazaki, K., Eskes, H. J., Sudo, K., Takigawa, M., van Weele, M., and Boersma, K. F.: Simultaneous assimilation of satellite NO2, O3, CO, and HNO3 data for the analysis of tropospheric chemical composition and emissions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 9545–9579, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-9545-2012, 2012.

Van Roozendael, M., R. Spurr, D. Loyola, C. Lerot, D. Balis, J-C. Lambert, W. Zimmer, J. van Gent, J. van Geffen, M. Koukouli, J. Granville, A. Doicu, C. Fayt, C. Zehner, Sixteen years of GOME/ERS2 total ozone data: the new direct-fitting GOME Data Processor (GDP) Version 5: I. Algorithm Description, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D3, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016471, 2012.

2011

Dameris, M., Loyola D., Chemistry-Climate Connections – Interaction of Physical, Dynamical, and Chemical Processes in Earth Atmosphere, in Climate Change - Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects, J. Blanco, H. Kheradmand (Eds), In Tech, ISBN 978-953-307-419-1, pp. 1-26, https://doi.org/10.5772/24210, 2011.

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2010

Mijling, B., Tuinder, O. N. E., van Oss, R. F., and van der A, R. J.: Improving ozone profile retrieval from spaceborne UV backscatter spectrometers using convergence behaviour diagnostics, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 1555–1568, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-3-1555-2010, 2010.

Contacts

The following people can be contacted within the Ozone project.

Science Leader: Daan Hubert – daan.hubert@aeronomie.be
Project Manager: Nathalie Kalb – nathalie.kalb@aeronomie.be
ESA Technical Officer: Michael Eisinger – Michael.Eisinger@esa.int

For general and technical support, please email ozone_CCI@aeronomie.be

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Second Ozone_cci User Workshop

28-29 May | Online | Workshop on the ozone climate data records developed by the ESA CCI

Background
The European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) aims to realise the full potential of the long-term Earth Observation archives collected by ESA and Third Party satellite missions.

Since 2010, the Ozone CCI team has been developing, maturing, generating and sustaining multiple complementary multi-decadal satellite ozone Climate Data Records (CDRs) tailored for climate monitoring, climate research and climate modelling applications.

The CCI ozone product portfolio consists of total and tropospheric ozone column data products as well as vertically resolved ozone products by nadir and limb-viewing sensors.

Interactive: ESA_cci Mean Total Ozone Column in Dobson Units (v1)

Workshop objectives

This second user workshop will be an online event (28-29 May 2024) is aimed at bringing together scientists involved in the generation of ozone Climate Data Records, as well as (potential) users of such multi-decadal ozone time series, and the broader ozone and climate communities:

presenting the state of the art in ozone Climate Data Record production;
discussing results from major Climate Data Record users, e.g., stratospheric ozone assessments for WMO/UNEP, tropospheric ozone assessments for TOAR II, studies focusing on UT/LS, evaluation of climate modelling, data assimilation and reanalysis;
collecting and updating user requirements for ozone Climate Data Records;
discussing remaining challenges for the generation of ozone Climate Data Records.

Call for abstracts

We welcome contributions from the Earth Observation, climate monitoring and climate modelling communities, specifically related to

recent developments and emerging challenges in the generation of long-term ozone Climate Data Records from satellite or ground-based sensors;
assessments of long-term ozone changes and variability in troposphere, stratosphere and UT/LS;
the evaluation of climate models, data assimilation and reanalyses using satellite Climate Data Records;
the combined use of ozone and other Essential Climate Variables (atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, cryosphere) to improve our understanding of the Earth system.

You are required to register to the workshop in order to submit an abstract. After submission you can modify/withdraw your abstract until the deadline.

More information (preliminary programme (UTC), registration, abstract submission) can be found at https://events.spacepole.be/event/185