Global ozone - Solar activity relationship from satellite measurements

Abstract

Global ozone variations are evaluated by analyzing satellite measurements, using the technique of integrating out dynamical effects causing large variations in total ozone at individual locations. Analysis of Nimbus 4 reprocessed BUV data was extended to cover the period from April 1970 through December 1975. Temporal and latitudinal variation of biases and yearly change in global biases between the satellite and ground based ozone measurements are indicated. The bias-corrected 6-month-running filtered global means are shown, and the correlation coefficient between ozone and the solar activity index remains high at 0.94. It is concluded that the results give a strong indication of an ozone-solar activity relationship that is caused by solar UV variability.