2016 marks 25 years of successful operations of NDACC for enabling and enhancing global atmospheric research. A comprehensive review article commemorating this anniversary appears in the September-October 2016 issue of NASA’s Earth Observer Newsletter. The newsletter is a bi-monthly publication that consolidates NASA Earth Science news and has a readership of more than 6000 internationally.
NDACC News and Events - 2016
October
2016
The annual meeting of the international Steering Committee (SC) for NDACC was held from October 17 to 21 in Bremen, Germany at the University of Bremen Guesthouse 'Teerhof'. Justus Notholt of the University of Bremen hosted the meeting.
September
2016
A global network of stations using Dobson and Brewer spectrophotometer have been monitoring the status of the ozone layer during several decades. Corresponding calibration systems have been developed to ensure the good and constant data quality in this network, which enables the scientific society to detect the depletion of the ozone layer and the Antarctic ozone hole in the 80ties. One World Dobson Calibration Center (WDCC) at NOAA (Boulder) and five Regional Dobson Calibration Centers (RDCC) in the corresponding WMO Regional Associations use standard Dobsons for this purpose.
August
2016
The three AMT companion papers can be found at:
July
2016
The seventh SPARC science report on 'The Mystery of Carbon Tetrachloride' is now available! The full report helps to answer policy-relevant questions related to the global budget of carbon tetrachloride, an important ozone-depleting substance, closing the gap between emission reported to UNEP's Ozone Secretariat and those estimated from atmospheric observations.
Several members of the NDACC community were involved in the preparation of this report.