Summary: | Many long-term monitoring sites in Antarctic regions, which deploy ground-based stratospheric remote sensors and fly radiosondes or ozonesondes on balloons, supported the Airborne Polar Experiment in September and October 1999. Support consisted of supplying data to the campaign in real time, and in some cases by increasing the frequency of measurements during the campaign. The results will strengthen scientific conclusions from the airborne measurements. But results from these sites are allowing important scientific studies of new aspects of the ozone hole in their own right, because like the aircraft and its campaign, many sites traverse the vortex edge and are close to the largest source of lee waves, or measure infrequently observed trace gases such as HNO 3 . Examples of such studies are the behaviour and value of NO 2 in midwinter, ozone filamentation with no apparent horizontal advection, the frequency and amplitude of gravity waves over the Antarctic Peninsula, mixing in the lowest stratosphere in Antarctic spring, the mechanism and frequency of HNO 3 enhancement above the ozone peak in midwinter, and trends in UV dose in southern South America. Fil: Roscoe, H. K. British Antarctic Survey; Reino Unido Fil: Colwell, S. R. British Antarctic Survey; Reino Unido Fil: Shanklin, J. D. British Antarctic Survey; Reino Unido Fil: Karhu, J. A. FMI; Finlandia Fil: Taalas, P. FMI; Finlandia Fil: Gil, M. Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial; España Fil: Yela, M. Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial; España Fil: Rodriguez, S. Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial; España Fil: Rafanelli, C. CNR-IFA; Italia Fil: Cazeneuve, H. Direccion Nacional del Antarctico; Argentina Fil: Villanueva, C. A. Ministerio de Defensa. Secretaria de Planeamiento. Servicio Meteorológico Nacional; Argentina Fil: Ginsburg, M. Ministerio de Defensa. Secretaria de Planeamiento. Servicio Meteorológico Nacional; Argentina Fil: Diaz, Susana Beatriz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y ...
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