Articles | Volume 24, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-6197-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Technical note: Challenges in detecting free tropospheric ozone trends in a sparsely sampled environment
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- RC1: 'Interesting statistical study on biases due to sparse sampling.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Feb 2024
- CC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2739', Raeesa Moolla, 28 Feb 2024
- RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2739', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Mar 2024
- AC1: 'Response to reviewers: egusphere-2023-2739', Kai-Lan Chang, 30 Mar 2024
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AR by Kai-Lan Chang on behalf of the Authors (30 Mar 2024)
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Apr 2024) by Jianzhong Ma
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AR by Kai-Lan Chang on behalf of the Authors (18 Apr 2024)
This is an interesting study showing how sparse sampling may affect trends and monthly means of ozone in the troposphere. We all have to live with the limitations of our observing system. This study explicitly shows some of them, and also gives some ideas about possible improvements, by using additional parameters, or additional observations at suitable times. All of this is scientifically interesting and I commend the authors for a well written and well illustrated paper. Unfortunately, we also know that many observing systems are controlled by factors much different from the statistical properties of the observed atmospheric property, e.g. ozone. So while the study is very good and interesting, I wonder how much change, e.g. in ozone sounding frequency it could, or should, generate. Hopefully not a reduction.
Apart from this more general question, I don't really have any detailed comments. I think the authors have done a very good job, probably with a few iterations.