Research on the Distribution and Content of Water Ice in Lunar Pole Regions Using Clementine UVVIS Data

Interest in the Moon started to increase at the beginning of the 21st century,and henceforth,more and more attention has been paid to the content and distribution of water ice in the lunar polar regions.The existence of water or ice in the regolith can apparently change its dielectric features.Therefore,in this article,the Dobson model is adopted and improved according to the Moon's environmental features,to construct the relationship between the volumetric water ice content and the dielectric constant.Ther...     

The Relationship between Total Ozone and Local Climate at Kunming Using Dobson and TOMS Data

This paper uses Dobson spectrometer total ozone data,Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer(TOMS) data and radiosonde reports from Kunming,which is located in southwest China,from 1980 to 2008 to analyze the total ozone-climate relationship.The total ozone decadal long-term trend and abrupt change were studied using enhanced Dobson data whose missing data were amended by the TOMS data.Stepwise linear regression was used for the selection of the key factors that influence total ozone,including temperatures,geopotential heights,depressions of the dew point,wind velocities,and total solar radiation.The relationship between the selected factors and total ozone was analyzed using the methods of stepwise regression and partial least squares regression(PLSR).Results showed that although the PLSR method was slightly better and more reasonable to study the relationship than stepwise regression,while the two regression results were only slightly different.It was also suggested that local climate,especially local circulation and temperature,were important for the variations in total ozone,and the local climate could almost linearly explain 80% of the variance of total ozone.The relationship also indicated that the abrupt change of total ozone in the year 1994 may be related to abrupt local climate change.     

Recalibration of the hohenpeissenberg dobson spectrophotometer 104 presuming ‘effective absorption coefficients’

The well calibrated Brewer spectrophotometer 17 (Sci-Tec Instruments Inc., Canada) stayed at the Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeissenberg (MOHP) from August 27 until September 1, 1984, in order to check and recalibrate Brewer 10, which had some stability problems. Brewer 17 was initially calibrated in July 1983, the validity of this calibration was repeatedly verified before and after the stay at the MOHP (Kerr et al., 1985; Kerr, 1984). The instrument proved itself to be very stable and appropriate as travellings standard instrument.As Dobson 104 didn't seem to be well calibrated at that time, the occasion was taken to perform also a Dobson recalibration. The methods normally used were not satisfactory, but a different method, presuming Effective Absorption Coefficients (EAC), presented by Kerr et al. at the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 1984 in Greece, yielded encouraging results. Before recalibration Dobson 104 showed a difference of 2–3% in comparison to Brewer 10-, Brewer 17- and TOMS- (on satellite Nimbus 7) measurements, whereas the agreement with the Brewers after EAC-calibration was good (X _rel < 1%). The different Dobson calibration methods are compared and the results of the Dobson 104 and Brewer 10 recalibrations are presented.

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Zusammenfassung Vom 27. August bis 1. September 1984 befand sich das Brewer Standard Spektrophotometer 17 (Sci-Tec Instruments Inc., Canada) am Meteorologischen Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg (MOHP), um den nicht sehr stabilen Brewer 10 zu überprüfen und neu zu kalibrieren. Der Brewer 17 wurde erstmals im Juli 1983 kalibriert, die Gültigkeit dieser Eichung wurde mehrfach vor und einmal nach dem Aufenthalt am MOHP bestätigt (Kerr et al., 1985; Kerr, 1984). Das Instrument erwies sich als sehr stabil und geeignet als transportables Standardinstrument.Da der Dobson 104 zum damaligen Zeipunkt ebenfalls nicht gut kalibriert schien, wurde die Gelegenheit einer Dobson-Neukalibrierung wahrgenommen. Die normalerweise benutzten Methoden waren nicht zufriedenstellend im Gegensatz zu einer Methode, die von Effektiven Absorption Coeffizienten (EAC) ausgeht. Diese von Kerr et al. auf dem Quadrennial Ozon Symposium 1984 in Griechenland vorgestellte Methode lieferte hier ermutigende Ergebnisse. Vor der Neueichung zeigte der Dobson 104 eine Differenz von etwa 2–3% im Vergleich mit Brewer 10-, Brewer 17- und TOMS- (auf dem Nimbus-7-Satelliten) Messungen, während die Übereinstimmung mit den Brewer-Geräten nach der EAC-Kalibrierung gut war (X _rel < 1%). Die verschiedenen Dobson-Kalibrierungsmethoden werden verglichen und Ergebnisse der Dobson 104- und Brewer 10-Neukalibrierungen werden vorgestellt.

     

Trends and Variability in Total Ozone from a Mid-Latitude Southern Hemisphere Site: The Melbourne Dobson Record 1978–2012

Abstract

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology maintains a number of long-running Dobson measurement programs, among the few in southern hemisphere mid-latitudes. Data from the Melbourne site (the Melbourne/Airport World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) station was originally located at Aspendale, then moved to the city centre, and finally to Melbourne Airport) from 1978 to 2012 have recently been reviewed and re-evaluated. These data are analyzed using multi-linear regression and also by application of an 11-year running mean. Satellite data from the Merged Ozone Dataset are also used for comparison with the Dobson results. We show that the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) plays a major role in winter and spring once phase is taken into account by month. We also show that the three so-called “classical” proxies (QBO, solar cycle, and Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine (EESC)) alone are able to give a good fit to ozone for Melbourne and, more generally, the southern mid-latitudes for most months of the year, in contrast with the case in the northern hemisphere where dynamical variation plays a much more important role. Correspondingly, the smoothed Melbourne Dobson time series shows a high correlation to EESC.     

香河地基观测臭氧柱总量数据分析及臭氧变化趋势研究

大气臭氧变化在全球气候和环境中具有重要作用,是当今大气科学领域的重要研究对象之一。对比分析了中国科学院大气物理研究所河北香河大气综合观测试验站2014～2016年Dobson和Brewer两种臭氧总量观测仪器探测结果的一致性,并使用1979～2016年Dobson观测数据分析了香河地区臭氧总量的长期变化趋势。结果表明:进行有效温度修正后,两种臭氧总量仪器观测结果一致性较好,平均偏差仅为-0.14DU(多布森单位),平均绝对偏差为8.00 DU,标准差为36.09 DU,相关系数达0.964。整体来说,两类仪器观测臭氧总量吻合较好。SO2浓度对Dobson仪器数据精度有一定影响,两组仪器数据在SO2浓度为0～0.2DU、0.2～0.4DU和0.4DU大气条件情况下的平均偏差分别为4.8 DU、7.0 DU和8.0 DU,平均偏差随SO2浓度升高而增大。过去38年香河地区的臭氧总量季节差异性强,春、冬两季臭氧总量高,夏、秋两季臭氧总量相对低,季节变化趋势差异明显。从长期变化上看,臭氧总量变化波动有不同的周期,在4个大的时间段变化趋势不同,2000～2010年臭氧层有显著恢复,但最近几年又有变薄的趋势。     

Aerosol extinction and ozone measurements

The effect of aerosol extinction on Dobson measurements of total ozone is investigated, and several recent attempts to resolve this problem are reviewed. It is pointed out that the balloon measurements of Paetzold and his colleagues circumvent this problem: Solar-cycle and quasi-biennial effects can be clearly discerned in the balloon data. It is suggested that Paetzold's data would be ideal for testing stratospheric models and searching for man's effect on the stratospheric ozone layer.     

Measurement of atmospheric total ozone by the filter photometric method

The total ozone content in the atmosphere was determined from the multichannel photometer observations of direct solar radiation made in the urban environment at Pune (18° 32 N, 73° 51E, 559 m ASL) and Sinhagad hill station (18° 22N, 73° 45E, 1305 m ASL) during March 1980-February 1982. The total ozone content of the atmosphere was computed making use of the differential absorption of solar radiation due to ozone at 0.4 and 0.6 m wavelengths in the Chappuis band. The values of the ozone data obtained from the photometer observations at Pune and Sinhagad were compared with the corresponding ozone data obtained from the Dobson spectrophotometer located at Pune. Values of ozone obtained by the photometric method were found to be smaller by 8–18% than the Dobson values when Vigroux's absorption coefficients were used. Similarly, when the absorption coefficients of Inn and Tanaka (1953) were used, the ozone values obtained by the photometric method were smaller by 4–14% than the Dobson values. The ozone values at the hill station obtained from the photometric method were in better agreement (5%) with the Dobson values.