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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-6743-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-6743-2024
Research article
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12 Jun 2024
Research article |  | 12 Jun 2024

No severe ozone depletion in the tropical stratosphere in recent decades

Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath, Gopalakrishna Pillai Gopikrishnan, Rolf Müller, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, and Jerome Brioude

Data sets

First Reprocessing of Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) Ozone Profiles (1998-2016): 2. Comparisons With Satellites and Ground-Based Instruments (https://tropo.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz/Archive.html) A. M. Thompson et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017jd027406

GOZCARDS Source Ozone 1 month L3 10 degree Zonal Means on a Vertical Pressure Grid V1, Greenbelt, MD, USA L. Froidevaux et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3005

MERRA-2 tavgU_2d_chm_Nx: 2d,diurnal,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Carbon Monoxide and Ozone Diagnostics V5.12.4 GMAO https://doi.org/10.5067/5KFZ6GXRHZKN

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column swath orbital V2 G. Jaross https://doi.org/10.5067/0WF4HAAZ0VHK

TOST and WOUDC ozonesonde data: World Meteorological Organization-Global Atmosphere Watch Program (WMO-GAW) JMA and NASA-WFF https://woudc.org/archive/products/ozone/vertical-ozone-profile/ozonesonde/1.0/tost/

Model-based climatology of diurnal variability in stratospheric ozone as a data analysis tool (https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data_services/merged/) S. M. Frith et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2733-2020

SWOOSH: Stratospheric Water and OzOne Satellite Homogenized data set NOAA https://csl.noaa.gov/groups/csl8/swoosh/

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Total Ozone Column 1-Orbit L2 5.5km x 3.5km DLR https://doi.org/10.5270/S5P-ft13p57

Total ozone dataset GOME/SCIAMACHY/GOME2 (GSG) https://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/UVSAT_material/data/to3/GGS_merged_zonalmean.dat

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Short summary
The current understanding and observational evidence do not provide any support for the possibility of an ozone hole occurring outside Antarctica today with respect to the present-day stratospheric halogen levels.
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