Quantifying the tropospheric ozone radiative effect and its temporal evolution in the satellite era

Pope, Richard J.; Rap, Alexandru; Pimlott, Matilda A.; Barret, Brice; Le Flochmoen, Eric; Kerridge, Brian J.; Siddans, Richard; Latter, Barry G.; Ventress, Lucy J.; Boynard, Anne; Retscher, Christian; Feng, Wuhu; Rigby, Richard; Dhomse, Sandip S.; Wespes, Catherine; Chipperfield, Martyn P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-3613-2024

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Quantifying the tropospheric ozone radiative effect and its temporal evolution in the satellite era

Richard J. Pope, Alexandru Rap, Matilda A. Pimlott, Brice Barret, Eric Le Flochmoen, Brian J. Kerridge, Richard Siddans, Barry G. Latter, Lucy J. Ventress, Anne Boynard, Christian Retscher, Wuhu Feng, Richard Rigby, Sandip S. Dhomse, Catherine Wespes, and Martyn P. Chipperfield

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Data sets

RAL Space Infrared-Mirowave-Sounding (IMS) Scheme Ozone Profiles: 2008-2009 RAL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10699293

RAL Space Infrared-Mirowave-Sounding (IMS) Scheme Ozone Profiles: 2010-2011 RAL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10765615

RAL Space Infrared-Mirowave-Sounding (IMS) Scheme Ozone Profiles: 2012-2013 RAL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10765944

RAL Space Infrared-Mirowave-Sounding (IMS) Scheme Ozone Profiles: 2014-2015 RAL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10766366

RAL Space Infrared-Mirowave-Sounding (IMS) Scheme Ozone Profiles: 2016-2017 RAL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10766682

TOMCAT Tropospheric Ozone R. Pope et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10670324

IASI-IMS Data IASI-IMS https://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~earrjpo/to3re/iasi_ims/

Daily IASI/Metop-A ULB-LATMOS ozone (O3) L2 product (total column and vertical profile) (v20151001) IASI-FORLI https://iasi.aeris-data.fr/catalog/

Welcome to the IASI-SOFRID database (vn3.5) IASI-SOFRID http://thredds.sedoo.fr/iasi-sofrid-o3-co/

ESRL/GML Ozonesondes NOAA https://gml.noaa.gov/ozwv/ozsondes/

SHADOZ Data Archive SHADOZ https://tropo.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz/Archive.html

Data Search/Download WOUDC https://woudc.org/data/explore.php

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Tropospheric ozone is an important short-lived climate forcer which influences the incoming solar short-wave radiation and the outgoing long-wave radiation in the atmosphere (8–15 km) where the balance between the two yields a net positive (i.e. warming) effect at the surface. Overall, we find that the tropospheric ozone radiative effect ranges between 1.21 and 1.26 W m⁻² with a negligible trend (2008–2017), suggesting that tropospheric ozone influences on climate have remained stable with time.