An update on ozone profile trends for the period 2000 to 2016

Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Froidevaux, Lucien; Fuller, Ryan; Wang, Ray; Anderson, John; Roth, Chris; Bourassa, Adam; Degenstein, Doug; Damadeo, Robert; Zawodny, Joe; Frith, Stacey; McPeters, Richard; Bhartia, Pawan; Wild, Jeannette; Long, Craig; Davis, Sean; Rosenlof, Karen; Sofieva, Viktoria; Walker, Kaley; Rahpoe, Nabiz; Rozanov, Alexei; Weber, Mark; Laeng, Alexandra; von Clarmann, Thomas; Stiller, Gabriele; Kramarova, Natalya; Godin-Beekmann, Sophie; Leblanc, Thierry; Querel, Richard; Swart, Daan; Boyd, Ian; Hocke, Klemens; Kämpfer, Niklaus; Maillard Barras, Eliane; Moreira, Lorena; Nedoluha, Gerald; Vigouroux, Corinne; Blumenstock, Thomas; Schneider, Matthias; García, Omaira; Jones, Nicholas; Mahieu, Emmanuel; Smale, Dan; Kotkamp, Michael; Robinson, John; Petropavlovskikh, Irina; Harris, Neil; Hassler, Birgit; Hubert, Daan; Tummon, Fiona

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10675-2017

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An update on ozone profile trends for the period 2000 to 2016

Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Lucien Froidevaux, Ryan Fuller, Ray Wang, John Anderson, Chris Roth, Adam Bourassa, Doug Degenstein, Robert Damadeo, Joe Zawodny, Stacey Frith, Richard McPeters, Pawan Bhartia, Jeannette Wild, Craig Long, Sean Davis, Karen Rosenlof, Viktoria Sofieva, Kaley Walker, Nabiz Rahpoe, Alexei Rozanov, Mark Weber, Alexandra Laeng, Thomas von Clarmann, Gabriele Stiller, Natalya Kramarova, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Thierry Leblanc, Richard Querel, Daan Swart, Ian Boyd, Klemens Hocke, Niklaus Kämpfer, Eliane Maillard Barras, Lorena Moreira, Gerald Nedoluha, Corinne Vigouroux, Thomas Blumenstock, Matthias Schneider, Omaira García, Nicholas Jones, Emmanuel Mahieu, Dan Smale, Michael Kotkamp, John Robinson, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Neil Harris, Birgit Hassler, Daan Hubert, and Fiona Tummon

Data sets

SBUV-NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data_services/merged/

SBUV-NOAA NOAA Climate Prediction Center ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/SBUV_CDR/

GOZCARDS Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://gozcards.jpl.nasa.gov/

SWOOSH Earth System Research Laboratory https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/groups/csd8/swoosh/

SAGE II–OSIRIS (+ OMPS) University of Saskatchewan http://osirus.usask.ca/

SAGE II–Ozone_CCI–OMPS European Space Agency and BIRA-IASB http://www.esa-ozone-cci.org/

SAGE II–MIPAS–OMPS Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/304_2857.php

Lidar, microwave, and FTIR data Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) http://www.ndacc.org

Quasi-Biennial-Oscillation (QBO) Data Serie FU Berlin http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/met/ag/strat/produkte/qbo/index.html

Solar radio flux time series Government of Canada and Natural Resources Canada ftp://ftp.geolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_flux

Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) Earth System Research Laboratory https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/mei/

Stratospheric Aerosol Optical Thickness National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/strataer/

Short summary

Thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol and its amendments, ozone-depleting chlorine (and bromine) in the stratosphere has declined slowly since the late 1990s. Improved and extended long-term ozone profile observations from satellites and ground-based stations confirm that ozone is responding as expected and has increased by about 2 % per decade since 2000 in the upper stratosphere, around 40 km altitude. At lower altitudes, however, ozone has not changed significantly since 2000.