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Editor(s): V.-H. Peuch, G. Brasseur, C. Zehner, H. Maring, and G. Stiller Special issue jointly organized between Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Earth System Science Data

The international Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) officially started in 1991; its original name was Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (or NDSC). Since then, the network has grown and its scope has expanded to also encompass tropospheric and climate-related research.

This special issue will commemorate 25 years of NDACC/NDSC operations and research, and it will highlight the current status of the network as well as its perspectives and challenges for the future.

Preface: A tribute to Rodolphe Zander

16 Apr 2018

Measurements of atmospheric ethene by solar absorption FTIR spectrometry

Geoffrey C. Toon, Jean-Francois L. Blavier, and Keeyoon Sung

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 5075–5088, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5075-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5075-2018, 2018

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11 Apr 2018

The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): history, status and perspectives

Martine De Mazière, Anne M. Thompson, Michael J. Kurylo, Jeannette D. Wild, Germar Bernhard, Thomas Blumenstock, Geir O. Braathen, James W. Hannigan, Jean-Christopher Lambert, Thierry Leblanc, Thomas J. McGee, Gerald Nedoluha, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Gunther Seckmeyer, Paul C. Simon, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, and Susan E. Strahan

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 4935–4964, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4935-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4935-2018, 2018

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23 Feb 2018

VESPA-22: a ground-based microwave spectrometer for long-term measurements of polar stratospheric water vapor

Gabriele Mevi, Giovanni Muscari, Pietro Paolo Bertagnolio, Irene Fiorucci, and Giandomenico Pace

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 1099–1117, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1099-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1099-2018, 2018

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12 Feb 2018

Atmospheric carbonyl sulfide (OCS) measured remotely by FTIR solar absorption spectrometry

Geoffrey C. Toon, Jean-Francois L. Blavier, and Keeyoon Sung

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1923–1944, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1923-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1923-2018, 2018

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22 Nov 2017

Quality assessment of integrated water vapour measurements at the St. Petersburg site, Russia: FTIR vs. MW and GPS techniques

Yana A. Virolainen, Yury M. Timofeyev, Vladimir S. Kostsov, Dmitry V. Ionov, Vladislav V. Kalinnikov, Maria V. Makarova, Anatoly V. Poberovsky, Nikita A. Zaitsev, Hamud H. Imhasin, Alexander V. Polyakov, Matthias Schneider, Frank Hase, Sabine Barthlott, and Thomas Blumenstock

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4521–4536, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4521-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4521-2017, 2017

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15 Nov 2017

Intercomparison of Pandora stratospheric NO₂ slant column product with the NDACC-certified M07 spectrometer in Lauder, New Zealand

Travis N. Knepp, Richard Querel, Paul Johnston, Larry Thomason, David Flittner, and Joseph M. Zawodny

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4363–4372, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4363-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4363-2017, 2017

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10 Nov 2017

Hemispheric asymmetry in stratospheric NO₂ trends

Margarita Yela, Manuel Gil-Ojeda, Mónica Navarro-Comas, David Gonzalez-Bartolomé, Olga Puentedura, Bernd Funke, Javier Iglesias, Santiago Rodríguez, Omaira García, Héctor Ochoa, and Guillermo Deferrari

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 13373–13389, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13373-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13373-2017, 2017

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12 Oct 2017

Multi-decadal records of stratospheric composition and their relationship to stratospheric circulation change

Anne R. Douglass, Susan E. Strahan, Luke D. Oman, and Richard S. Stolarski

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 12081–12096, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12081-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12081-2017, 2017

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11 Oct 2017

Technical note: The US Dobson station network data record prior to 2015, re-evaluation of NDACC and WOUDC archived records with WinDobson processing software

Robert D. Evans, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Audra McClure-Begley, Glen McConville, Dorothy Quincy, and Koji Miyagawa

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 12051–12070, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12051-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12051-2017, 2017

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15 Sep 2017

Tropospheric ozone profiles by DIAL at Maïdo Observatory (Reunion Island): system description, instrumental performance and result comparison with ozone external data set

Valentin Duflot, Jean-Luc Baray, Guillaume Payen, Nicolas Marquestaut, Francoise Posny, Jean-Marc Metzger, Bavo Langerock, Corinne Vigouroux, Juliette Hadji-Lazaro, Thierry Portafaix, Martine De Mazière, Pierre-Francois Coheur, Cathy Clerbaux, and Jean-Pierre Cammas

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3359–3373, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3359-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3359-2017, 2017

11 Sep 2017

| Highlight paper

An update on ozone profile trends for the period 2000 to 2016

Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Lucien Froidevaux, Ryan Fuller, Ray Wang, John Anderson, Chris Roth, Adam Bourassa, Doug Degenstein, Robert Damadeo, Joe Zawodny, Stacey Frith, Richard McPeters, Pawan Bhartia, Jeannette Wild, Craig Long, Sean Davis, Karen Rosenlof, Viktoria Sofieva, Kaley Walker, Nabiz Rahpoe, Alexei Rozanov, Mark Weber, Alexandra Laeng, Thomas von Clarmann, Gabriele Stiller, Natalya Kramarova, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Thierry Leblanc, Richard Querel, Daan Swart, Ian Boyd, Klemens Hocke, Niklaus Kämpfer, Eliane Maillard Barras, Lorena Moreira, Gerald Nedoluha, Corinne Vigouroux, Thomas Blumenstock, Matthias Schneider, Omaira García, Nicholas Jones, Emmanuel Mahieu, Dan Smale, Michael Kotkamp, John Robinson, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Neil Harris, Birgit Hassler, Daan Hubert, and Fiona Tummon

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 10675–10690, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10675-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10675-2017, 2017

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07 Sep 2017

Attribution of recent ozone changes in the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes using statistical analysis and chemistry–climate model simulations

Guang Zeng, Olaf Morgenstern, Hisako Shiona, Alan J. Thomas, Richard R. Querel, and Sylvia E. Nichol

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 10495–10513, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10495-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10495-2017, 2017

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01 Sep 2017

Comparison of ozone profiles and influences from the tertiary ozone maximum in the night-to-day ratio above Switzerland

Lorena Moreira, Klemens Hocke, and Niklaus Kämpfer

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 10259–10268, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10259-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10259-2017, 2017

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11 Aug 2017

Intercomparison of atmospheric water vapour measurements at a Canadian High Arctic site

Dan Weaver, Kimberly Strong, Matthias Schneider, Penny M. Rowe, Chris Sioris, Kaley A. Walker, Zen Mariani, Taneil Uttal, C. Thomas McElroy, Holger Vömel, Alessio Spassiani, and James R. Drummond

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2851–2880, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2851-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2851-2017, 2017

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04 Aug 2017

Trends and annual cycles in soundings of Arctic tropospheric ozone

Bo Christiansen, Nis Jepsen, Rigel Kivi, Georg Hansen, Niels Larsen, and Ulrik Smith Korsholm

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9347–9364, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9347-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9347-2017, 2017

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06 Jul 2017

Background CO₂ levels and error analysis from ground-based solar absorption IR measurements in central Mexico

Jorge L. Baylon, Wolfgang Stremme, Michel Grutter, Frank Hase, and Thomas Blumenstock

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2425–2434, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2425-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2425-2017, 2017

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23 Jun 2017

A decadal time series of water vapor and D / H isotope ratios above Zugspitze: transport patterns to central Europe

Petra Hausmann, Ralf Sussmann, Thomas Trickl, and Matthias Schneider

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 7635–7651, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7635-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7635-2017, 2017

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09 Jun 2017

Thin ice clouds in the Arctic: cloud optical depth and particle size retrieved from ground-based thermal infrared radiometry

Yann Blanchard, Alain Royer, Norman T. O'Neill, David D. Turner, and Edwin W. Eloranta

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2129–2147, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2129-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2129-2017, 2017

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07 Jun 2017

Methods to homogenize electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde measurements across changes in sensing solution concentration or ozonesonde manufacturer

Terry Deshler, Rene Stübi, Francis J. Schmidlin, Jennifer L. Mercer, Herman G. J. Smit, Bryan J. Johnson, Rigel Kivi, and Bruno Nardi

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2021–2043, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2021-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2021-2017, 2017

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01 Jun 2017

Validation of MOPITT carbon monoxide using ground-based Fourier transform infrared spectrometer data from NDACC

Rebecca R. Buchholz, Merritt N. Deeter, Helen M. Worden, John Gille, David P. Edwards, James W. Hannigan, Nicholas B. Jones, Clare Paton-Walsh, David W. T. Griffith, Dan Smale, John Robinson, Kimberly Strong, Stephanie Conway, Ralf Sussmann, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, Emmanuel Mahieu, and Bavo Langerock

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 1927–1956, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1927-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1927-2017, 2017

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10 Mar 2017

Investigating differences in DOAS retrieval codes using MAD-CAT campaign data

Enno Peters, Gaia Pinardi, André Seyler, Andreas Richter, Folkard Wittrock, Tim Bösch, Michel Van Roozendael, François Hendrick, Theano Drosoglou, Alkiviadis F. Bais, Yugo Kanaya, Xiaoyi Zhao, Kimberly Strong, Johannes Lampel, Rainer Volkamer, Theodore Koenig, Ivan Ortega, Olga Puentedura, Mónica Navarro-Comas, Laura Gómez, Margarita Yela González, Ankie Piters, Julia Remmers, Yang Wang, Thomas Wagner, Shanshan Wang, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, David García-Nieto, Carlos A. Cuevas, Nuria Benavent, Richard Querel, Paul Johnston, Oleg Postylyakov, Alexander Borovski, Alexander Elokhov, Ilya Bruchkouski, Haoran Liu, Cheng Liu, Qianqian Hong, Claudia Rivera, Michel Grutter, Wolfgang Stremme, M. Fahim Khokhar, Junaid Khayyam, and John P. Burrows

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 955–978, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-955-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-955-2017, 2017

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14 Feb 2017

The recent increase of atmospheric methane from 10 years of ground-based NDACC FTIR observations since 2005

Whitney Bader, Benoît Bovy, Stephanie Conway, Kimberly Strong, Dan Smale, Alexander J. Turner, Thomas Blumenstock, Chris Boone, Martine Collaud Coen, Ancelin Coulon, Omaira Garcia, David W. T. Griffith, Frank Hase, Petra Hausmann, Nicholas Jones, Paul Krummel, Isao Murata, Isamu Morino, Hideaki Nakajima, Simon O'Doherty, Clare Paton-Walsh, John Robinson, Rodrigue Sandrin, Matthias Schneider, Christian Servais, Ralf Sussmann, and Emmanuel Mahieu

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2255–2277, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2255-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2255-2017, 2017

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07 Feb 2017

Variability and evolution of the midlatitude stratospheric aerosol budget from 22 years of ground-based lidar and satellite observations

Sergey M. Khaykin, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Philippe Keckhut, Alain Hauchecorne, Julien Jumelet, Jean-Paul Vernier, Adam Bourassa, Doug A. Degenstein, Landon A. Rieger, Christine Bingen, Filip Vanhellemont, Charles Robert, Matthew DeLand, and Pawan K. Bhartia

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 1829–1845, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1829-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1829-2017, 2017

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20 Jan 2017

Tropospheric water vapour isotopologue data (H₂¹⁶O, H₂¹⁸O, and HD¹⁶O) as obtained from NDACC/FTIR solar absorption spectra

Sabine Barthlott, Matthias Schneider, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, Matthäus Kiel, Darko Dubravica, Omaira E. García, Eliezer Sepúlveda, Gizaw Mengistu Tsidu, Samuel Takele Kenea, Michel Grutter, Eddy F. Plaza-Medina, Wolfgang Stremme, Kim Strong, Dan Weaver, Mathias Palm, Thorsten Warneke, Justus Notholt, Emmanuel Mahieu, Christian Servais, Nicholas Jones, David W. T. Griffith, Dan Smale, and John Robinson

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 15–29, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-15-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-15-2017, 2017

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06 Dec 2016

Validation of satellite-based noontime UVI with NDACC ground-based instruments: influence of topography, environment and satellite overpass time

Colette Brogniez, Frédérique Auriol, Christine Deroo, Antti Arola, Jukka Kujanpää, Béatrice Sauvage, Niilo Kalakoski, Mikko Riku Aleksi Pitkänen, Maxime Catalfamo, Jean-Marc Metzger, Guy Tournois, and Pierre Da Conceicao

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 15049–15074, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15049-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15049-2016, 2016

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30 Nov 2016

Accuracy, precision, and temperature dependence of Pandora total ozone measurements estimated from a comparison with the Brewer triad in Toronto

Xiaoyi Zhao, Vitali Fioletov, Alexander Cede, Jonathan Davies, and Kimberly Strong

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5747–5761, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5747-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5747-2016, 2016

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25 Nov 2016

CFC-11, CFC-12 and HCFC-22 ground-based remote sensing FTIR measurements at Réunion Island and comparisons with MIPAS/ENVISAT data

Minqiang Zhou, Corinne Vigouroux, Bavo Langerock, Pucai Wang, Geoff Dutton, Christian Hermans, Nicolas Kumps, Jean-Marc Metzger, Geoff Toon, and Martine De Mazière

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5621–5636, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5621-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5621-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

The Zugspitze radiative closure experiment for quantifying water vapor absorption over the terrestrial and solar infrared – Part 2: Accurate calibration of high spectral-resolution infrared measurements of surface solar radiation

Andreas Reichert, Markus Rettinger, and Ralf Sussmann

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4673–4686, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4673-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4673-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

The Zugspitze radiative closure experiment for quantifying water vapor absorption over the terrestrial and solar infrared – Part 1: Setup, uncertainty analysis, and assessment of far-infrared water vapor continuum

Ralf Sussmann, Andreas Reichert, and Markus Rettinger

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 11649–11669, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11649-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11649-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

The Zugspitze radiative closure experiment for quantifying water vapor absorption over the terrestrial and solar infrared – Part 3: Quantification of the mid- and near-infrared water vapor continuum in the 2500 to 7800 cm⁻¹ spectral range under atmospheric conditions

Andreas Reichert and Ralf Sussmann

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 11671–11686, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11671-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11671-2016, 2016

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30 Aug 2016

20 years of ClO measurements in the Antarctic lower stratosphere

Gerald E. Nedoluha, Brian J. Connor, Thomas Mooney, James W. Barrett, Alan Parrish, R. Michael Gomez, Ian Boyd, Douglas R. Allen, Michael Kotkamp, Stefanie Kremser, Terry Deshler, Paul Newman, and Michelle L. Santee

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10725–10734, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10725-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10725-2016, 2016

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25 Aug 2016

Proposed standardized definitions for vertical resolution and uncertainty in the NDACC lidar ozone and temperature algorithms – Part 1: Vertical resolution

Thierry Leblanc, Robert J. Sica, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Alexander Haefele, Thomas Trickl, Guillaume Payen, and Frank Gabarrot

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4029–4049, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4029-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4029-2016, 2016

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25 Aug 2016

Proposed standardized definitions for vertical resolution and uncertainty in the NDACC lidar ozone and temperature algorithms – Part 2: Ozone DIAL uncertainty budget

Thierry Leblanc, Robert J. Sica, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Alexander Haefele, Thomas Trickl, Guillaume Payen, and Gianluigi Liberti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4051–4078, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4051-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4051-2016, 2016

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25 Aug 2016

Proposed standardized definitions for vertical resolution and uncertainty in the NDACC lidar ozone and temperature algorithms – Part 3: Temperature uncertainty budget

Thierry Leblanc, Robert J. Sica, Joanna A. E. van Gijsel, Alexander Haefele, Guillaume Payen, and Gianluigi Liberti

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4079–4101, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4079-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4079-2016, 2016

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19 Aug 2016

The natural oscillations in stratospheric ozone observed by the GROMOS microwave radiometer at the NDACC station Bern

Lorena Moreira, Klemens Hocke, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Ellen Eckert, Thomas von Clarmann, and Niklaus Kämpfer

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10455–10467, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10455-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10455-2016, 2016

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18 Aug 2016

On instrumental errors and related correction strategies of ozonesondes: possible effect on calculated ozone trends for the nearby sites Uccle and De Bilt

Roeland Van Malderen, Marc A. F. Allaart, Hugo De Backer, Herman G. J. Smit, and Dirk De Muer

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3793–3816, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3793-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3793-2016, 2016

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28 Jul 2016

Tropospheric ozone seasonal and long-term variability as seen by lidar and surface measurements at the JPL-Table Mountain Facility, California

Maria Jose Granados-Muñoz and Thierry Leblanc

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 9299–9319, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9299-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9299-2016, 2016

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20 Jun 2016

Results from the validation campaign of the ozone radiometer GROMOS-C at the NDACC station of Réunion island

Susana Fernandez, Rolf Rüfenacht, Niklaus Kämpfer, Thierry Portafaix, Françoise Posny, and Guillaume Payen

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 7531–7543, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7531-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7531-2016, 2016

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20 May 2016

Comparison of XCO abundances from the Total Carbon Column Observing Network and the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change measured in Karlsruhe

Matthäus Kiel, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, and Oliver Kirner

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2223–2239, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2223-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2223-2016, 2016

11 Mar 2016

Contribution of oil and natural gas production to renewed increase in atmospheric methane (2007–2014): top–down estimate from ethane and methane column observations

Petra Hausmann, Ralf Sussmann, and Dan Smale

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3227–3244, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3227-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3227-2016, 2016

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