QUILT: Quantification and Interpretation of Long-Term UV-Vis Observations of the Stratosphere

Updated 2003-06-24

The aim of QUILT is to optimise the exploitation of the existing European UV-visible monitoring systems by which O3 and the related free radicals NO2, BrO and OClO can be measured. These monitoring systems include ground-based, balloon and satellite observations. QUILT is providing an assessment of the chemical ozone loss over the last decade and through 2000-2003. This is achieved through analysis improvements, consolidation of existing datasets and near real time integrations with chemical transport models.

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Status: Ongoing
Project time span: 2001 - 2003
Data collection: 2001 - 2003
Data processing: not specified
Data reporting: not specified

Contact information

Contact person: D. W. (Bill) Arlander
Address: Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) Po.box 100 2027 Kjeller Norway
Phone: +47 63 89 8182
Fax: +47 63 89 8050
Email: on.ulin@rednalra.llib
Other project contacts: (1) European Commission, Research DG 5th Framework Programme on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (2) QUILT is also part of the GATO (Global Atmospheric Observations) cluster of the European Commission (http://www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk/)

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Climate change effects

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Air/aerosol

Geography

Regions studied: Climate change effects

Data availability

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Not specified

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: http://nadir.nilu.no/quilt/
Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?: (1) Links with the NDSC/WMO: Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change/World Meteorological Organisation. (2) QUILT is part of the GATO (Global Atmospheric Observations) cluster of the European Commission (http://www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk/)
Other related projects: COSE, SOGE