Retrieving vertical ozone profiles from measurements of global spectral irradiance

Bernhard, Germar; Petropavlovskikh, Irina; Mayer, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4979-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4979-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4979-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 12

Research article

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20 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 20 Dec 2017

Retrieving vertical ozone profiles from measurements of global spectral irradiance

Germar Bernhard, Irina Petropavlovskikh, and Bernhard Mayer

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Final revised paper (published on 20 Dec 2017)
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RC1: 'Referee Report - Bernhard et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'Response to comments of Referee #1', Germar Bernhard, 24 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Comments for “Retrieving Vertical Ozone Profiles from Measurements of Global Spectral Irradiance” by Bernhard et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Response to comments of Referee #2', Germar Bernhard, 23 Oct 2017
AC3: 'Marked-up manuscript, showing changes prompted by the referees' comments', Germar Bernhard, 24 Oct 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Germar Bernhard on behalf of the Authors (24 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Nov 2017) by Pawan K. Bhartia

AR by Germar Bernhard on behalf of the Authors (13 Nov 2017)

Short summary

The vertical distribution of atmospheric ozone has historically been measured from the ground by analysing the wavelength dependence of zenith radiation. Our method retrieves the same information from global irradiance, which is defined as radiant flux received from the entire upper hemisphere, including the Sun. The new method makes existing long-term data sets of global irradiance available for studying ozone profiles. The accuracy of the new method is similar to that of the legacy method.