Long-term total ozone observations at Arosa (Switzerland) with Dobson and Brewer instruments (1988-2007)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Scarnato, B ^a,b   Staehelin, J ^a   Stubi R ^c   Schill, H ^d  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^d Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss Lichtklimatisches Observatorium Haus Steinbruch   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTS; LAMINATING MACHINERY; METADATA; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AIR MASS; BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE WATCHES; GROUND BASED; LARGE DATA; QUASI-SIMULTANEOUS; SEASONAL AMPLITUDES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLANT PATH; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; SWITZERLAND; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE DATA; TOTAL OZONE MEASUREMENTS; WAVELENGTH PAIR; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

OZONE;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; BIOMONITORING; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVELENGTH;

AROSA; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77956051066     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011908     Document Type: Article

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