JOSIE activities on ozonesonde procedures and related reports

Campaign

Objective

JOSIE-1996

GAW Report No. 130

  • Operating Procedures
  • Profiling Capabilities
  • Intercomparison sonde types (e.g. ECC, Brewer-Mast, KC79)

JOSIE-1998

GAW Report No. 57

  • ECC sonde manufacturer differences (SPC, ENSCI)
  • Brand new sondes provided by sounding stations randomly taken)

JOSIE-2000

GAW Report No. 158

  • Operating Procedures
  • Focus on ECC sonde
  • Different sensing solution types
  • Different manufacturers (SPC, ENSCI)
  • Basis for a preliminary SOP-V1.0 adopted in April 2001 at a workshop at Geneva, Switzerland

BESOS-2004

[Deshler et al., J.Geophys.Res., 2008]

  • Testing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP V1.0) under flight conditions
  • Focus on ECC sonde
  • Different sensing solution types
  • Different manufacturers (SPC, ENSCI)
  • Unanimous agreement on SOP’s by the ASOPOS 1.0 Panel – outcome of a Jülich Workshop in September 2004

ASOPOS 2002–2012

GAW Report No. 201

  • Define and establish Standard Operating Procedures for ECC sondes: Evolution of SOP-V1.0 into new SOP-V2.0

JOSIE-2009

  • Compared newly manufactured ECC sondes (SPC, ENSCI)
  • Brand new sondes provided by sounding stations (randomly taken)

JOSIE-2010

  • Refurbished sondes

JOSIE-2017-SHADOZ

[Thompson et al., BAMS, 2019]

  • Tested manufactured ECC sondes (SPC, ENSCI) provided by participating sounding stations
  • Tested Standard Operating Procedures for ECC sondes
  • Preparatory Workshop was conducted in September 2016 at Edinburgh, UK, at Quadrennial Ozone Symposium

O3S-DQA Guidelines Report-2012

[Smit and O3S-DQA, 2012].

  • Recommendations for Homogenization and Uncertainties
  • Basis was several workshops:
  1. January 2009 at Jülich, Germany
  2. October 2011 at Boulder, USA.
  3. April 2012 at Washington, USA.
  4. September 2012 at Toronto, Canada

ASOPOS 2018–2021

GAW Report No. 268

  • Define and establish consistent Standard Operating Procedures for ECC sondes and Guidelines for best practice

Last Modified: 04.04.2022