Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3597-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3597-2024
Research article
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13 Jun 2024
Research article |  | 13 Jun 2024

Stability requirements of satellites to detect long-term stratospheric ozone trends based upon Monte Carlo simulations

Mark Weber

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We investigate how stable the performance of a satellite instrument has to be to be useful for assessing long-term trends in stratospheric ozone. The stability of an instrument is specified in percent per decade and is also called instrument drift. Instrument drifts add to uncertainties of long-term trends. From simulated time series of ozone based on the Monte Carlo approach, we determine stability requirements that are needed to achieve the desired long-term trend uncertainty.
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