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The correlation of the amount of ozone with other characteristics of the atmosphere
Author(s) -
Meetham A. R.,
Dobson G. M. B.
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49706327102
Subject(s) - tropopause , atmosphere (unit) , stratosphere , atmospheric sciences , ozone , environmental science , atmospheric pressure , meteorology , climatology , geology , physics
Day to day variations in the total amount of atmospheric ozone are shown to be more closely correlated with those of potential temperatures in the stratosphere than with those of any other function of temperature and pressure, or with those of any other geophysical phenomenon yet investigated. A method of correlating with a certain variable associated with surface pressure distribution is exploited, and of three upper air phenomena considered the height of the tropopause is found to have the closest correlation with this variable. A speculative explanation of the close connection of the amount of ozone with other characteristics of the atmosphere is offered.