Detection and classification of laminae in balloon-borne ozonesonde profiles: application to the long-term record from Boulder, Colorado

Minschwaner, Kenneth; Giljum, Anthony T.; Manney, Gloria L.; Petropavlovskikh, Irina; Johnson, Bryan J.; Jordan, Allen F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1853-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1853-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1853-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 3

Research article

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12 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 12 Feb 2019

Detection and classification of laminae in balloon-borne ozonesonde profiles: application to the long-term record from Boulder, Colorado

Kenneth Minschwaner, Anthony T. Giljum, Gloria L. Manney, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Bryan J. Johnson, and Allen F. Jordan

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RC1: 'Review of Minschwaner et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Review of “Detection and classification of laminae in balloon-borne ozonesonde profiles: Application to the long-term record from Boulder, Colorado', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Nov 2018
AC1: 'Response to Referee Comments', Kenneth Minschwaner, 11 Jan 2019

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ED: Publish as is (15 Jan 2019) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

AR by Kenneth Minschwaner on behalf of the Authors (25 Jan 2019)

Short summary

We analyzed balloon measurements of ozone between the surface and 25 km altitude above Boulder, Colorado, and developed an algorithm to detect and classify layers of either unusually high or unusually low ozone. These layers range in vertical thickness from a few hundred meters to a few kilometers. We found that these laminae are an important contributor to the overall variability in ozone, especially in the transition region between the troposphere and stratosphere.