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dc.contributor.authorBaray, J.-L.
dc.contributor.authorLeveau, J.
dc.contributor.authorBaldy, S.
dc.contributor.authorJouzel, J.
dc.contributor.authorKeckhut, P.
dc.contributor.authorBergametti, G.
dc.contributor.authorAncellet, G.
dc.contributor.authorBencherif, H.
dc.contributor.authorCadet, B.
dc.contributor.authorCarleer, M.
dc.contributor.authorDavid, C.
dc.contributor.authorDe Mazière, M.
dc.contributor.authorFaduilhe, D.
dc.contributor.authorGodin Beekmann, S.
dc.contributor.authorGoloub, P.
dc.contributor.authorGoutail, F.
dc.contributor.authorMetzger, J.M.
dc.contributor.authorMorel, B.
dc.contributor.authorPommereau, J.P.
dc.contributor.authorPorteneuve, J.
dc.contributor.authorPortafaix, T.
dc.contributor.authorPosny, F.
dc.contributor.authorRobert, L.
dc.contributor.authorVan Roozendael, M.
dc.date2006
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-22T11:27:18Z
dc.date.available2016-11-22T11:27:18Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/4497
dc.descriptionThe assessment of changes induced by human activities on Earth atmospheric composition and thus on global climate requires a long-term and regular survey of the stratospheric and tropospheric atmospheric layers. The objective of this paper is to describe the atmospheric observations performed continuously at Reunion Island (55.5°east, 20.8°south) for 15 years. The various instruments contributing to the systematic observations are described as well as the measured parameters, the accuracy and the database. The LiDAR systems give profiles of temperature, aerosols and ozone in the troposphere and stratosphere, probes give profiles of temperature, ozone and relative humidity, radiometers and spectrometers give stratospheric and tropospheric integrated columns of a variety of atmospheric trace gases. Data are included in international networks, and used for satellite validation. Moreover, some scientific activities for which this station offers exceptional opportunities are highlighted, especially air mass exchanges nearby dynamical barriers: (1) On the vertical scale through the tropical tropopause layer (stratosphere-troposphere exchange). (2) On the quasi-horizontal scale across the southern subtropical barrier separating the tropical stratospheric reservoir from mid- and high latitudes.
dc.languageeng
dc.titleAn instrumented station for the survey of ozone and climate change in the southern tropics
dc.typeArticle
dc.subject.frascatiEarth and related Environmental sciences
dc.audienceScientific
dc.subject.freeozone
dc.subject.freeaccuracy
dc.subject.freeaerosol
dc.subject.freeair
dc.subject.freearticle
dc.subject.freeatmosphere
dc.subject.freeclimate change
dc.subject.freedata base
dc.subject.freegas
dc.subject.freehumidity
dc.subject.freelatitude
dc.subject.freemass
dc.subject.freepriority journal
dc.subject.freeradiation detector
dc.subject.freespectrometer
dc.subject.freestratosphere
dc.subject.freetemperature
dc.subject.freetropics
dc.subject.freevalidation process
dc.subject.freeAerosols
dc.subject.freeEnvironmental Monitoring
dc.subject.freeGreenhouse Effect
dc.subject.freeOxidants, Photochemical
dc.subject.freeOzone
dc.subject.freePhotometry
dc.subject.freeTemperature
dc.subject.freeTropical Climate
dc.source.titleJournal of Environmental Monitoring
dc.source.volume8
dc.source.issue10
dc.source.page1020-1028
Orfeo.peerreviewedYes
dc.identifier.doi10.1039/b607762e
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-33749536259


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