Global Altitude Dependent Ozone Trends

Global zonally averaged ozone trends as a function of height have been derived from several different sources for 1979-1996 (Randel and Wu., 1999). Trends were calculated with respect to a ozone climatology (Fortuin and Kelder, 1998). Data are available on CEDA and can be accessed anonymously via:

sparc-ftp.ceda.ac.uk/sparc/ref_clim/randel/trace_gases/ozone

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Variable Period Units Data File
Ozone Trends1 1979-1996 Percent trendp.dat
Ozone Trends1 1979-1996 DU km-1decade-1 trenddu.dat
Ozone Density Climatology2 1980-1991 DU km-1 clim.dat

References

(1) Randel, W. J. and F. Wu (1999), A stratospheric ozone trends data set for global modelling studies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 3089-3092, doi:10.1029/1999GL900615.

(2) Fortuin J. P. F. and H. Kelder (1998), An ozone climatology based on ozonesonde and satellite measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31709-31734, doi:10.1029/1998JD200008.