Multi-year total ozone column variability at three Norwegian sites and the influence of Northern Hemisphere Climatic indices

• Published in: Atmospheric Environment
• Main Authors: Boccacci, G, Bertolin, C, Cavazzani, S, Siani, AM
• Other Authors: Siani, Am
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2023
• Subjects: Total ozone column; Geopotential height; Remote sensing; NAO index; AO index; SCAND index; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1688520; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119966

Total ozone column (TOC) measurements are retrieved from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura satellite at the three Norwegian sites: Oslo (59.9 degrees N 10.7 degrees E, 1 m a.s. l.), Trondheim (63.4 degrees N 10.4 degrees E, 3 m a.s.l.) and Andoya (69.1 degrees N 15.7 degrees E, 32 m a.s.l.). TOC data have been analysed from 2005 to 2021, in order to detect annual and multi-years total ozone variability. The relationship between geopotential height (GPH) at 250 hPa and total ozone column has been evaluated after showing that monthly anomalies in GPH and TOC are correlated amongst the three sites. The influence of the three Northern Hemisphere Tele Connection (TC) indices (North Atlantic Oscillation, Arctic Oscillation and Scandinavia) on TOC variability has been investigated. It is found that Scandinavia index plays a prominent role for the northernmost latitudes of Andoya and Trondheim while North Atlantic Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation indices are weakly correlated (negatively) to TOC and (positively) to GPH at Oslo. The response of TOC variability to the solar activity at the three sites is also explored and it is noticed that in the period of increasing variation of solar activity, significant TOC anomaly events are only observed in Andoya and Trondheim.