UGAMP Ozone Climatology

General Info

Title:	UGAMP Ozone Climatology
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Analysis
Abbreviation:	UGAMPO3
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_UGAMPO3

Summary
A brief description of the data.

A 4-dimensional climatology of ozone monthly means, combining various satellite observations and ozone sonde data. The data are global and cover the Years 1985 to 1989. The data are public.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

The UGAMP ozone climatology consists in a 4-dimensional distribution of ozone that has been built up from the combination of several observational data sets. These data sets include satellite observations (SBUV, SAGE II, SME, TOMS) as well as ozone sonde data provided by the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada. This global climatology, covering five years (1985 to 1989), was originally established to replace the simpler ozone climatologies used as input in the UGAMP models (ECMWF parameterization or 2-D zonal means deduced from satellite data). It provides monthly means of the ozone column above the grid levels as well as 5-year averages and zonal averages of these monthly means, on a 2.5 x 2.5 deg horizontal grid and over 47 levels, from the ground up to 0.001 mb. Software to convert ozone columns into mixing ratio and to interpolate the data on any required grid is also available.

Data Access

This dataset is public and can be accessed from the BADC archives

Availability of data and file format

The BADC holds the UGAMP ozone climatology covering Years 1985 to 1989, as well as some software provided by the authors to convert the data from the UGAMP grid to any user required grid, horizontally and/or vertically, and to calculate zonal averages. A program to translate the recorded ozone columns into mixing ratio is also available.

Help on transferring data and software: where to find data files, how to get them, etc.
Data: Ozone monthly means for Years 1985 to 1989; 5-year averages; zonal averages.
Software: to convert ozone columns into mixing ratios or perform a grid transformation.
Third party software: We encourage users to provide any useful software they have developed.

Links to further information and references

Further scientific and technical information about this data set (including coverage, resolution, etc) can be found in the BADC documentation on the UGAMP ozone climatology and the associated software.

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

If you would like to know more about the UGAMP ozone climatology or how to get it from the BADC, contact the BADC support line.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Data provided as is by the University of Reading.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

Not available at this time.

Author
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Name	email
Prof Keith Shine (University of Reading)

Online References
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Relation	Title
Download	UGAMP Ozone Climatology Data Directory
Logo	UGAMP Logo
Documentation	BADC Doc: UGAMP Ozone climatology Help file

Parent Data Entity
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No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
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None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

OZONECOLUMN	OZONE	OXYGENCOMPOUNDS	ATMOSPHERICCHEMISTRY
ATMOSPHERE	EARTH SCIENCE	NULL

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
OZONECOLUMN	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
OZONE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
OXYGENCOMPOUNDS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICCHEMISTRY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
ATMOSPHERE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
EARTH SCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P111	GCAT0001
NULL	general_units	0

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90.0
Min X: -180.0	Max X 180.0
Min Y -90.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	1985-01-01
End Date:	1989-12-31

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
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Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
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Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

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