Earth System Science Data Discussions www.earth-syst-sci-data-discuss.net 1866-3591 1 1 2008 10.5194/essdd-1-1-2008 http://www.earth-syst-sci-data-discuss.net/1/1/2008/ http://www.earth-syst-sci-data-discuss.net/1/1/2008/essdd-1-1-2008.html http://www.earth-syst-sci-data-discuss.net/1/1/2008/essdd-1-1-2008.pdf 1 13 2008-09-22 Compilation of ozonesonde profiles from the Antarctic Georg-Forster-Station from 1985 to 1992 G. König-Langlo gert.koenig-langlo@awi.de H. Gernandt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestraße 24, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany On 22 May 1985 the first balloon-borne ozonesonde was successfully launched by the staff of Georg-Forster-Station (70&deg;46' S, 11&deg;41' E). The following weekly ozone soundings mark the beginning of the continuous investigation of Germany to study the vertical ozone distribution in the southern hemisphere. <br><br> In 1985 these ozone soundings have been the only record showing the change of vertical ozone distribution in the southern polar stratosphere in September and October. The regular ozone soundings from 1985 until 1992 are a valuable reference data set since the chemical ozone loss became a significant feature in the southern polar stratosphere. <br><br> The balloon-borne soundings were performed at the upper air sounding facility of the neighbouring station Novolazarevskaya, just 2 km apart from Georg-Forster-Station. Till 1992, ozone soundings were taken without interruption. Afterwards, the ozone sounding program was moved to Neumayer-Station (70&deg;39' S, 8&deg;15' W) 750 km further west. Attmanspacher, W. and Dütsch, H. U.: International ozone sonde intercomparison at the Observarory Hohenpeissenberg 19 January–5 February 1970, Ber. Dtsch. Wetterdienstes, 120, 1, 1970. Attmanspacher, W. and Dütsch, H. U.: 2nd International ozone sonde intercomparison at the Observarory Hohenpeissenberg 5–20 April 1978, Ber. Dtsch. Wetterdienstes, 157, 1, 1981. Brewer, A. and Milford, J.: The Oxford Kew ozone sonde, Proc. R. Soc. Lon. Ser.-A, 256, 470, 1960. Farman, J., Gardiner, B., and Shanklin, J. D.: Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClO<sub>x</sub>/NO<sub>x</sub> interaction, Nature, 315, 207–210, 1985. Feister, U., Grasnick, K. H., and Peters, G.: Performance of the Electrochemical Ozone Sonde OSR, Pageoph., 123, 1985. Gernandt, H.: The vertical ozone distribution above the GDR research base, Antarctica, 1985, Geophys. Res. Lett., 14(1), 84–86, 1987. Gernandt, H., Plessing, P., Feister, U., Peters, G., and Pisch, H.: A preliminary result of the ozone observation at GDR research base (70.77&deg; S, 11.85&deg; E) from May to December 1985, Mem. Natl. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue, 48, 256–271, 1987. Gernandt, H., Gloede, P., Feister, U., Peters, G., and Thees, B.: Vertical distributions of ozone in the lower stratosphere over Antarctica and their relations to the spring depletion, Planet. Space Sci., 37(8), 915–933, 1989. Gernandt, H.: The vertical ozone distribution in the southern stratosphere, in: Scientific investigations of the Schirmacher Oasis and its surroundings, edited by: Bormann, P. and Fritzsche, D., Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Ergänzungsheft 289, Justus Perthes Verlag Gotha, 361–373, 1995. Gernandt, H., Herber, A., von der Gathen, P., Rex, M., Rinke, A., Wessel, S., and Kaneto, S.: Variability of ozone and aerosols in the polar atmosphere, Mem. Natl. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue, 51, 189–215, 1996. Gernandt, H., Herber, A., Kaneto, S., and von der Gathen, P.: Ozone variation in the southern polar stratosphere, Mem. Natl. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue, 52, 68–88, 1998. König-Langlo, G. and Gernandt, H.: 20 Jahre Ozonsondierungen an den deutschen Antarktisstationen Georg-Forster und Neumayer, Ozonbulletin des Deutschen Wetterdienstes, 113, available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.25892, 2006. Müller, R., Crutzen, P. J., Grooß, J.-U., Brühl, Ch., Russell, J. M., Gernandt, H., McKenna, D. S., and Tuck, A. F.: Severe chemical ozone loss in the Arctic during the winter of 1995–96, Nature, 389, 709–712, 1997. Rex, M., Dethloff, K., Handorf, D., Herber, A., Lehmann, R., Neuber, R., Notholt, J., Rinke, A., von der Gathen, P., Weisheimer, A., and Gernandt, H.: Arctic and Antarctic ozone layer observations: chemical and dynamical aspects of variability and long-term changes in the polar stratosphere, Polar Res., 19(2), 193–204, 2000. Rönnebeck, K. and Sonntag, D.: Eine weiterentwickelte elektrochemische Ozonradiosonde, Z. f. Meteor., 26, 1, 1976.