Not exact matches
To address those and other questions, the TOAR research team has produced the first - ever global - scale scientific assessment of tropospheric
ozone, based on all available
surface observations and the peer - reviewed literature.
«We created the largest database of
surface ozone from hourly
observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of
ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»
The TOAR database contains the world's largest collection of
ozone metrics, calculated consistently from hourly
ozone observations at all available
surface monitoring sites around the globe.
Impacts of the fall 2007 California wildfires on
surface ozone: Integrating local
observations with global model simulations
The
observation, which connects Arctic stratospheric
ozone and variation in winds and sea -
surface temperatures in the tropics, could help forecasters better understand what's going on.
For more than thirty years, NASA research - driven missions, such as the EOS, have pioneered remote sensing
observations of the Earth's climate, including parameters such as solar irradiance, the Earth's radiation budget,
ozone vertical profiles, and sea
surface height.
Temperature
observations will also be studied and interpreted in a more integrated manner, in order to better understand the linkages of stratospheric
ozone changes to
surface climate.
The atmosphere ECV breakout group was asked to consider 10 ECVs related to
observations of the atmosphere: Earth radiation budget (including solar irradiance); aerosol properties;
ozone; carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases; cloud properties; precipitation; water vapor;
surface wind speed and direction; upper - air wind; and upper - air temperature.
Compute the
surface radiative forcing and its amplification by the atmospheric warming in a manner following Myhre and Stordal 1997, using gridded global fields of of the input variables obtained from
observations (e.g. the ECMWF reanalysis, ISCCP clouds, satellite
ozone, some sort of aerosol optical depth from satellite.
Dust - storm source areas determined by the Total
Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer and
surface observations