The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database:
a long-term database for climate studies

Davis, Sean M.; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Hassler, Birgit; Hurst, Dale F.; Read, William G.; Vömel, Holger; Selkirk, Henry; Fujiwara, Masatomo; Damadeo, Robert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-461-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-461-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-461-2016

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Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

28 Sep 2016

| 28 Sep 2016

The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database: a long-term database for climate studies

Sean M. Davis, Karen H. Rosenlof, Birgit Hassler, Dale F. Hurst, William G. Read, Holger Vömel, Henry Selkirk, Masatomo Fujiwara, and Robert Damadeo

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RC1: 'Documents a new combined water vapor-ozone data set', Andrew Dessler, 15 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Sean Davis, 02 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Review of "The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database: A long-term database for climate studies"', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jun 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Sean Davis, 02 Sep 2016
RC3: 'Review Davis et al', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jul 2016
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer #3', Sean Davis, 02 Sep 2016

Short summary

This paper describes the construction of the Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database, whose main feature is a combined data product created by homogenizing multiple satellite records. This motivation for SWOOSH is that in order to study multiyear to decadal variability in ozone and water vapor concentrations, it is necessary to have a continuous and smooth record without artificial jumps in the data.