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Principal Investigator: Anne M. Thompson

Archiver/Webmaster: Jacquelyn Witte

Data Disclaimer and Guidelines:

The data on this website are preliminary: subject to revision and reprocessing. Check dates of creation to download the most current version. Contact the co-investigators for questions concerning data techniques and quality.

Access to these data is free to the public. Whenever substantial use is made of their data, you accept that an offer of co-authorship will be made through personal contact. In all cases, an acknowledgement must be made to the data co-investigators and SHADOZ when these data are used in publication. Link here for contact information of the SHADOZ Co-Investigators and station PI's

SHADOZ reserves the right to limit access to the Data Archive and to alter or change the layout and content of the website.

WHAT'S NEW (2007)

**** Cotonou, Benin Station profiles are on the archive (updated 2007-11-06)

**** Heredia, Costa Rica station moves to Alajuela. Site locations are very close.

1998 - 2004 reprocessed to the latest data format and ALL data includes the new Sonde/SAGE add-on Climatology [Reference: Richard McPeters, G. Labow, and J. Logan, Ozone climatological profiles for satellite retrieval algorithms, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2005jd006823, in press, 2007] (updated 23-Jan-2007).
*Also check for recent updates to Y2006 and Y2007

Publications using SHADOZ data should include one or both of the following references:

Thompson, A.M., J.C. Witte, R.D. McPeters, S.J. Oltmans, F.J. Schmidlin, J.A. Logan, M.Fujiwara, V.W.J.H. Kirchhoff, F. Posny, G.J.R. Coetzee, B. Hoegger, S. Kawakami, T. Ogawa, B.J. Johnson, H. Vömel and G. Labow, Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) 1998-2000 tropical ozone climatology 1. Comparison with Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and ground-based measurements, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 108 No. D2, 8238, doi: 10.1029/2001JD000967, 30 January 2003.

Thompson, A.M., J.C. Witte, S.J. Oltmans, F.J. Schmidlin, J.A. Logan, M. Fujiwara, V.W.J.H. Kirchhoff, F. Posny, G.J.R. Coetzee, B. Hoegger, S. Kawakami, T. Ogawa, J.P.F. Fortuin, and H.M. Kelder, Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) 1998-2000 tropical ozone climatology 2. Tropospheric variability and the zonal wave-one, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 108 No. D2,8241, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002241, 31 January 2003.





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