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Ozone watch

A report of the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2016

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Cover: Ozone Observations

image: This is an Antarctic ozone hole false color image for Oct. 5, 2016, with overlays of South Pole ozone vertical profile for the same day (white line) and a photo of the South Pole balloon inflation facility with the aurora australis in the background (photo credit: Patrick Cullis). The ozone-sonde profile shows nearly complete ozone depletion in the 14-21 km layer. Profiles are from the NOAA/GMD monitoring program. The total ozone image is from the Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite instrument aboard the joint NOAA/NASA Suomi satellite. Image colors indicate total ozone column levels with dark blue values showing the ozone hole depleted region. view more 

Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

The 2016 Quadrennial Ozone Symposium (QOS-2016) was held on 4--9 September 2016 in Edinburgh, UK. The Symposium was organized by the International Ozone Commission (IO3C), the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the University of Edinburgh, and was co-sponsored by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, and the World Meteorological Organization. More than 300 participants from 39 different countries attended the Symposium.

A report of the Symposium is published in the 3rd issue of 2017 in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. It covers all issues related to Atmospheric Ozone, including trends of ozone in the stratosphere and troposphere, ozone-climate interactions, latest emerging techniques for ozone observations, and effects of ozone on human health, ecosystems and food production. Future challenges for stratospheric and tropospheric ozone are highlighted.

The report is also selected as the cover article of the issue. The cover shows different techniques for Ozone observations.

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