Fifty years of balloon-borne ozone profile measurements at Uccle, Belgium: a short history, the scientific relevance, and the achievements in understanding the vertical ozone distribution

Van Malderen, Roeland; De Muer, Dirk; De Backer, Hugo; Poyraz, Deniz; Verstraeten, Willem W.; De Bock, Veerle; Delcloo, Andy W.; Mangold, Alexander; Laffineur, Quentin; Allaart, Marc; Fierens, Frans; Thouret, Valérie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12385-2021

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18 Aug 2021

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| 18 Aug 2021

Fifty years of balloon-borne ozone profile measurements at Uccle, Belgium: a short history, the scientific relevance, and the achievements in understanding the vertical ozone distribution

Roeland Van Malderen, Dirk De Muer, Hugo De Backer, Deniz Poyraz, Willem W. Verstraeten, Veerle De Bock, Andy W. Delcloo, Alexander Mangold, Quentin Laffineur, Marc Allaart, Frans Fierens, and Valérie Thouret

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RC1: 'ozonesonde records', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Apr 2021
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The main aim of initiating measurements of the vertical distribution of the ozone concentration by means of ozonesondes attached to weather balloons at Uccle in 1969 was to improve weather forecasts. Since then, this measurement technique has barely changed, but the dense, long-term, and homogeneous Uccle dataset currently remains crucial for studying the temporal evolution of ozone from the surface to the stratosphere and is also the backbone of the validation of satellite ozone retrievals.