Quantitative Understanding of Ozone losses by Bipolar Investigations (QUOBI)

Updated 2003-03-06

By launching several hundred ozonesondes at many Arctic and sub-Arctic stations, one of them Ny-Ålesund, the stratospheric chemical ozone loss will be determined. The launches of all stations will be coordinated by analysis of trajectory calculations based on analysis and forecast wind fields. The aim is to get as many ozone sounding pairs as possible, each of them linked by trajectories in space and time. A statistical description of the ozone differences given by the first and the second measurement of individual sonde pairs will yield the chemical ozone loss with spatial and time resolution.

Time frame

Status
Ongoing
Project time span
2003 - 2003
Data collection
2003 - 2003
Data processing
not specified
Data reporting
not specified

Contact information

Contact person
Dr. Peter von der Gathen
Address
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung Telegrafenberg A43 D-14473 Potsdam
Phone
+49-331 288 2128
Fax
+49-331 288 2178
Email
ed.madstop-iwa@nehtag

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled
Media sampled/studied/modelled
Air/aerosol
Additional information or further specification of types of data / information collected, species / tissues / organs sampled, etc.

ozone depletion

Geography

Regions studied
Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard
Other areas
arctic and middle latitudes, where ozone soundings take place

Data availability

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
No

Methods & Procedures

Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.

Ozonesonde launches on requests from Potsdam

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
Yes
Other institutes involved in the project

NILU University Cambridge Freie Universität Berlin FMI and numerous other institutes, wich launch ozone sondes in the arctic and mid latitudes

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