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WMO/UNEP
Dobson Data Quality Workshop Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, February 14-18,
2011 |
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Data re-evaluation and Data
Quality Workshop of Dobson Measurements 2011.03.01 Systematic observation of atmospheric ozone is a key task
relevant to the Vienna Convention that is supported by the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) in the frame of the Global Atmosphere Watch
Programme (GAW) and assisted by the “Network
for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change” (NDACC).. For adequate evaluation of the effectiveness of the
Montreal Protocol high quality column ozone measurements are very important.
Continued maintenance and calibration of instruments at the ground-based GAW
and NDACC total ozone monitoring stations are the basic areas of the
assistance provided by the WMO. Recent analyses presented by the GAW
Scientific Advisory Group for Ozone (SAG-O3) have shown that these activities
also ought to include a better implementation of data quality procedures in
the network and a thorough evaluation of past measurements. This concerns
especially the Dobson total ozone observations. On the basis of this finding
it was recommended at the 7th
Meeting of the Ozone Research Managers of the Parties to the Vienna Convention,
Geneva, 2008, that a technological workshop should be organized to bring
together managers of the archive data sets and provide guidance on how to
re-evaluate and reprocess some
important past data sets. This should be arranged under the assistance
of the SAG-O3 and supported by the Vienna Convention Trust Fund on Research
and Systematic Observations. This web site provides the visitors information
about organization and agenda of the Workshop that was held in the Conference
Center “Nove Adalbertinum”,
www.noveadalbertinum.cz, in
Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic in the period February 14-18, 2011. On the recommendation of the SAG-O3 any institution was
invited to nominate an expert responsible for processing of the Dobson
observations and maintenance of the data base of its station (s) to
participate in the Workshop. The organizers expected that the digitized
historical 0-level (primary) data, SL and HG lamp test data of the Dobson
instruments from participating stations would be available for the
discussions concerning their quality and transferred to the WOUDC. Summary of basic Achievements |
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31 participants from 20
countries attended the Workshop
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21 data managers of 51
Dobson stations were present
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The above represent about
75% of the currently active GAW Dobson stations
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25 expert and on-demand oral
presentations were given
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A big amount of the primary
(0-level) data and the lamp-test records have been collected by the WOUDC
manager
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Summary of the Workshop will
be presented at the “8-th Ozone Research Managers Meeting”, Geneva,
May 2-4, 2011
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The final Report will be
prepared and published as the GAW paper in 2011
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Summary and next steps see
Bob´s presentation: endingpresentation.pdf
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administrator: vanicek@chmi.cz