THE DATA FILES



The directories labeled "oz78", "oz79", .."oz90" contain daily files of individual SBUV ozone profile measurements. The directory labeled "zonalavg" contains daily and monthly zonal mean ozone profile data for 5 degree zones. Note: in the examples shown below the titles may not line up with the columns ver well, depending on the font your viewer is using. (It is best to download the readme.1st file and view it in a non-proportional font using a text editor.)



1) Daily File Format:

The very detailed level 2 data records have been "compressed" to give only the retrieved ozone profile as layer amounts in 12 Umkehr levels and as mixing ratio at 17 standard pressure levels. (They are not actually compressed - they just don't give all the ancillary information.) Each day all the individual measurements are given in a single file, 5 lines per measurement, ASCII format.

Each SBUV measurement is given in 5 lines

line 1:

IyrDay   combined year (79, 80, ..) + day-of-year (1-366)
Isec     observation time in seconds of day (1-86400) UT
Alat     latitude of observation  (-90 - +90)
Alon     longitude of observation  (-180 - +180)
ZA       solar zenith angle of observation (0 - 90)
Iflag    combined error flag for profile retrieval and total ozone retrieval PPTT (see table)
               * (after 2/87 ALL scans flagged as out-of-synch)
Ref      effective lambertian reflectivity for field of view
Toz      total column ozone in DU
 

lines 2-3:

X1       layer ozone amounts in Dobson Units for Umkehr layers 12 to 1
                            where:
         layer 12  is  0.000244 atm to top of atmosphere
               11      0.000488 atm to 0.000244 atm
                :
                3      0.125 - 0.0625 atm
                2      0.25 - 0.125 atm
                1      1.0 - 0.25 atm    (this is a double layer)
            (in one Umkehr layer pressure decreases by exactly factor of 2)

lines 4-5:

MR       ozone mixing ratios in ppmv for 17 standard pressure levels:
           0.5mb  0.7  1.0  1.5  2.0  3.0  4.0  5.0  7.0
           10.0  15.0  20.0  30.0  40.0  50.0  70.0 and 100.0mb

         (anyone who needs mixing ratio at other levels can derive it from the
          layer amounts by splining from cumulative ozone versus log pressure)

example: /oz78/oz781101.n7s

  78305  2426 -75.92  -53.6 86.91 1012 0.95 322.7    (first measurement)
  0.093  0.242  0.879  3.110  8.223 18.174
 35.894 62.267 85.185 57.367 29.591 22.851
 1.60 2.14 2.95 4.09 4.75 5.32 5.61 5.77 5.88
 5.85 5.57 5.22 4.58 3.94 3.23 1.92 0.91
 78305  2458 -77.22  -59.3 85.09 1012 0.97 332.8    (second measurement)
  0.088  0.234  0.853  3.091  8.104 17.919
 34.818 59.655 85.051 64.085 32.085 24.651
 1.54 2.07 2.89 4.07 4.72 5.23 5.52 5.69 5.80
 5.70 5.35 4.99 4.41 3.88 3.25 2.05 1.05
  :                                                 (etc.)
  :


2) Zonal Average Data

Daily averaged data (entire year in one file) in 5 degree latitude zones. At least 70% of possible data in a zone must be present for the mean to be given. Layer amounts (example 1) and mixing ratios (example 2) are given in different files.

Monthly average mixing ratios and layer amounts are given in files zmon_mr.n7s and zmon_x1.n7s respectively, in the same format as the daily files.

example 1: /zonalavg/ZM78_x1.n7s (layer amounts)

  November  1, 1978   78305
         Lat   ZA    R   TOZ     X12    X11    X10  ..     X2     X1   N
 75-80N   .00   .00 .00    .0    .00    .00    .00  ..    .00    .00   0
 70-75N   .00   .00 .00    .0    .00    .00    .00  ..    .00    .00  17
 65-70N 67.22 82.97 .64 300.7    .09    .27   1.23  ..  32.75  22.60  35
 60-65N 62.30 77.68 .57 319.3    .09    .27   1.15  ..  34.52  24.21  36
   :
 eq-5N   2.54 17.08 .34 258.1    .11    .27    .89  ..   5.83  20.19  37
   :
 75-80S-77.69 68.35 .97 355.1    .08    .21    .73  ..  31.23  29.68  66
 eq-65N 29.09 43.72 .28 276.4    .10    .26    .93  ..  12.59  21.12 479
 eq-65S-29.20 20.46 .32 315.4    .10    .25    .85  ..  18.91  23.89 476
 global   .12 32.16 .30 295.8    .10    .25    .89  ..  15.73  22.50 955

example 2: /zonalavg/ZM78_mr.n7s (mixing ratio)

  November  1, 1978   78305
         Lat   ZA    R   TOZ    0.5   0.7   1.0  ..     70   100   N
 75-80N   .00   .00 .00    .0   .00   .00   .00  ..    .00   .00   0
 70-75N   .00   .00 .00    .0   .00   .00   .00  ..    .00   .00  17
 65-70N 67.22 82.97 .64 300.7  1.99  2.98  4.30  ..   1.83  1.27  35
 60-65N 62.30 77.68 .57 319.3  1.89  2.74  4.13  ..   1.78  1.24  36
   :
 eq-5N   2.54 17.08 .34 258.1  1.70  2.19  2.89  ..    .51   .19  37
   :
 75-80S-77.69 68.35 .97 355.1  1.33  1.76  2.51  ..   2.30  1.17  66
 eq-65N 29.09 43.72 .28 276.4  1.69  2.24  3.19  ..    .96   .51 479
 eq-65S-29.20 20.46 .32 315.4  1.59  2.07  2.79  ..   1.38   .67 476
 global   .12 32.16 .30 295.8  1.64  2.15  2.99  ..   1.17   .59 955