Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2361-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2361-2022
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20 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 20 Apr 2022

Ground-based Ku-band microwave observations of ozone in the polar middle atmosphere

David A. Newnham, Mark A. Clilverd, William D. J. Clark, Michael Kosch, Pekka T. Verronen, and Alan E. E. Rogers

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Ozone (O3) is an important trace gas in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT), affecting heating rates and chemistry. O3 profiles measured by the Ny-Ålesund Ozone in the Mesosphere Instrument agree with Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) for winter night-time, but autumn twilight SABER abundances are up to 50 % higher. O3 abundances in the MLT from two different SABER channels also show significant differences for both autumn twilight and summer daytime.
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