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Variations of Arctic winter ozone from the LIMS Level 3 dataset
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Murali Natarajan
Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, 21 Langley Blvd,
Mail Stop 401B, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
Ernest Hilsenrath
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of
Maryland at Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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Short summary
Ozone (O3) is an excellent tracer of atmospheric transport processes in the middle atmosphere during Arctic winter. The Nimbus 7 LIMS O3 profiles of late October 1978 through May 1979 now extend to the upper mesosphere via its Version 6 (V6) algorithm. We describe the generation of zonal Fourier coefficients from the profiles, followed by their gridding to daily synoptic maps of O3. We then present several examples of how V6 O3 varies in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere during winter.
Ozone (O3) is an excellent tracer of atmospheric transport processes in the middle atmosphere...