Total O3 columns at polar regions: TOMCAT/SLIMCAT passive and active tracers and merged SAOZ-MSR2 dataset

Passive and active total ozone columns simulated by the chemical transport model TOMCAT/SLIMCAT (Chipperfield, 1999) and the merged dataset of total ozone from Système d'Analyse par Observation Zénithale (SAOZ, Pommereau and Goutail, 1988) ground-based instruments and Multi-Sensor Reanalysis (MSR2, van der A et al., 2010, 2015) for the polar stations described in the Table here below.

Table. Arctic and Antarctic stations included in the study: station name and ID, latitude, longitude and measurement periods of SAOZ and MSR2 datasets.

Each file corresponds to the whole winter time data set of the station identified by its ID: O3_PassActSLIMCAT_CompositeMSR2SAOZ_ID.txt

1^st column: Year

2^nd column: Day of Year (DoY)

3^rd column: Passive ozone column (without chemistry) modelled by TOMCAT/SLIMCAT (O3pasS).

4^th column: Active ozone column (with full chemistry) modelled by TOMCAT/SLIMCAT (O3actS).

5^th column: merged data from SAOZ observations and MSR2 (O3comp)

Passive and active tracers of SLIMCAT were normalized to O3comp data in the beginning of the winter.

NaN is used when there is no observation either from SAOZ instrument or MSR2 dataset or from the model.

References

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Pommereau, J.-P., and Goutail, F.: O₃ and NO₂ ground-based measurements by visible spectrometry during arctic winter and spring 1988, Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 891–894, https://doi.org/10.1029/GL015i008p00891,1988.

van der A, R. J., Allaart, M. A. F., and Eskes, H. J.: Multi sensor reanalysis of total ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 11277–11294, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-11277-2010, 2010.

van der A, R. J., Allaart, M. A. F., and Eskes, H. J.: Extended and refined multi sensor reanalysis of total ozone for the period 1970–2012, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3021–3035, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3021-2015, 2015.