REVIEWS AND CONSULTATIONS OZONE CONTENT OVER THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2002

摘要

The review is compiled based on the results of the operation of the Total Ozone (TO) Monitoring System in the CIS and Baltic countries functioning at the Central Aerological Observatory (CAO) in the operational regime. The Monitoring System uses data from the national network of M-124 filter ozonometers operating under the methodological control of the Main Geophysical Observatory (MGO). The quality control of the entire system is performed based on TOMS/EP observations. The basic results of observations of TO for each month of the fourth quarter of 2002 and for the year as a whole are generalized. Furthermore, the peculiar characteristics of the spring Antarctic ozone anomaly of 2002 are described (from the Russian side, these measurements are carried out primarily by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute). Also considered are the results of regular observations of surface ozone, which have been carried out by the CAO in the forest zone of Moscow since 1991, characterizing the state of surface ozone in Central Russia.