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Stratospheric & Tropospheric Ozone: ACC/SPARC (Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate / Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate)

Vertical profiles of December climatologies at (65N,270E) for Forcing and RPC.

"The AC&C/SPARC ozone database covers the period 1850 to 2100 and can be used as forcing in climate models that do not include interactive chemistry. The historical part of the AC&C/SPARC ozone database spans the period 1850 to 2009 and consists of separate stratospheric and tropospheric data sources: (1) A multiple linear regression analysis of SAGE I+II satellite observations and polar ozonesonde measurements is used for the stratospheric dataset during the well-observed period from 1979 to 2005. The regression includes terms representing equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine (EESC) and the 11-year solar cycle variability. The EESC regression coefficients are used to extrapolate that data back in time, and form a stratospheric ozone time series backward to cover the entire historical time period 1850-2006. (2) Tropospheric data are derived from the chemistry-climate models Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) version 3.5 and the NASA-GISS PUCCINI model. Both models simulate tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry with feedback to the radiation and were driven by the recently available historical (1850-2000) emissions succinctly described in Lamarque et al. (ACP, 2010)."

Key Strengths:

  • Long, infilled data set covering tropospheric and stratospheric ozone
  • Historical period data (1979-2005) from SAGE are very stable (see Randel & Wu page)

Key Limitations:

  • Highly smoothed, lacks interannual variability
  • Likely underestimates Antarctic ozone trends due to inclusion of few ozonesonde records consistently in the polar vortex

Years of Record

1850/01 to 2099/12
temporal metadataID:

Formats

Timestep

Monthly

Domain

Global

Spatial Resolution

5 deg x 5 deg x 24 levels

Ocean or Land

Ocean&Land

Missing Data Flag

spatially complete

Vertical Levels

Multiple levels

Earth system components and main variables

Atmosphere, Ozone: Stratospheric

Suggested Data Citation

Cionni, I. et al., Ozone database in support of CMIP5 simulations: results and corresponding radiative forcing, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 11267-11292, doi:10.5194/acp-11-11267-2011, 2011.

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Key Figures

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Captions
Vertical profile of December Forcing and RCP climatologies at (65N,270E). All the RPC are overlayed showing that they are identical. Units (mole/mole)
Time series of 'CMIP5 SPARC O3 Forcing' at 30 hPa at (65N,270E) for 1910-1959. Units (mole/mole) scaled by 10^6.
Time series of 'CMIP5 SPARC O3 Forcing' at 30 hPa at (65N,270E) for 1960-2009. Units (mole/mole) scaled by 10^6.
Time series of 'CMIP5 SPARC O3 RCP' at 30 hPa at (65N,270E) for 2010-2059. Units (mole/mole) scaled by 10^6.
Time series of 'CMIP5 SPARC O3 RCP' at 30 hPa at (65N,270E) for 2060-2099. Units (mole/mole) scaled by 10^6.
O3 'CMIP5 SPARC O3 Forcing' climatology (1850-2009) for the Northern (top) and Southern (bottom) hemispheres. Units (mole/mole) scaled by 10^6.

Cite this page

National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 04 Feb 2014. "The Climate Data Guide: Stratospheric & Tropospheric Ozone: ACC/SPARC (Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate / Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate)." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/stratospheric-tropospheric-ozone-accsparc-atmospheric-chemistry-and-climate.

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