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Total column ozone measurements by the Dobson spectrophotometer at Belsk (Poland) for the period 1963–2019: homogenization and adjustment to the Brewer spectrophotometer
Janusz W. Krzyścin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 01-452,
Poland
Bonawentura Rajewska-Więch
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 01-452,
Poland
Janusz Jarosławski
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 01-452,
Poland
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The article presents a dataset comprising all manual observations of total column ozone taken at Belsk (Poland) from 23 March 1963 up to 31 December 2019 by the Dobson spectrophotometer. The dataset contains results of ~115 000 intraday measurements. The original data can be used for trend analyses as the instrument's aging has not been detected. For comparative research with other ozone data sources, correction procedures (for adjustments to the Brewer spectrophotometer output) are proposed.
The article presents a dataset comprising all manual observations of total column ozone taken at...
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