ozonesonde

ozonesonde

[′ō‚zōn‚sänd]
(meteorology)
A balloon-borne instrument for measuring the ozone concentration at various altitudes and transmitting the data by radio.
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Huang, 2012: Stratosphereto-troposphere transport revealed by groundbased lidar and ozonesonde at a midlatitude site.
A SEA LEVEL STRATOSPHERIC OZONE INTRUSION EVENT INDUCED WITHIN A THUNDERSTORM GUST FRONT: Nocturnal thunderstorms coupled with a stratospheric intrusion augmented downward stratospheric ozone transport to impact sea level monitors on the U.S. East Coast on 16 April 2018
Bian, "Observation of a summer tropopause fold by ozonesonde at Changchun, China: Comparison with reanalysis and model simulation," Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, vol.
Composition and Thermal Structure of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere in a Penetrating Mesoscale Convective Complex Determined by Satellite Observations and Model Simulations
Johnson's "ozonesonde" group has been using balloons to loft instruments 18 miles into the atmosphere for 26 years to collect detailed profiles of ozone levels from the surface up.
Significant Ozone Hole Remains over Antarctica
To add more chemical and meteorological information, both sites incorporated synchronous (mostly within 10 min of each other) ozonesonde launches and continuous aerosol profiling with ground-based ceilometers.
THE OZONE WATER--LAND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION STUDY: An Innovative Strategy for Understanding Chesapeake Bay Pollution Events: The Ozone Water--Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS) is an enhanced observational strategy aimed at better understanding chemical forecasts and pollution transport within the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Tarasick and coworkers have used backward and forward trajectories to produce ozone maps using North American ozonesonde data linking it to the grid points of the trajectory pathways [57].
Airmass trajectories and long range transport of pollutants: review of wet deposition scenario in South Asia
The ozonesonde is a small balloon-borne instrument that is attached to a standard radiosonde to measure profiles of ozone from the surface to 35 km with ~100-m vertical resolution.
OZONESONDE QUALITY ASSURANCE: The JOSIE-SHADOZ (2017) Experience: As a backbone for satellite algorithms and monitoring stratospheric ozone recovery, ozonesondes require regular evaluation, here performed by operators of the tropical SHADOZ network
Prior to our analyses, the data were evaluated for potential offset and drift by comparison with globally distributed ozonesonde profiles and OMI convective cloud differential (CCD) measurements (Ziemke et al.
2. GLOBAL CLIMATE
In 1992, LAPAN conducted a big-balloon launch, similar to that for cryogenic air sampling, and began successive ozonesonde observations at the Watukosek Observatory in Java (Komala et al.
COORDINATED UPPER-TROPOSPHERE-TO-STRATOSPHERE BALLOON EXPERIMENT IN BIAK
The first two LOAC instruments flown using MF balloons together with a cryogenic frost-point hygrometer (CFH), a Lan OPC, and an ozonesonde did not reach ATAL altitudes.
BATAL: The Balloon Measurement Campaigns of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer: A series of NASA-ISRO-sponsored balloon campaigns in India and Saudi Arabia was conducted between 2014 and 2017 to study the nature, formation, and transport of polluted aerosols in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere during the Asian summer monsoon
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