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WOUDC total ozone master file
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Title
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WOUDC total ozone master file
Abstract
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The WOUDC total ozone master file provides a consolidated product of daily total
ozone values from the WOUDC archive.
Keywords
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ozone,total ozone,total column ozone,O3,daily,master file
ISO 19115 Topic Category
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climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
URL
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https://woudc.org/archive/Summaries/TotalOzone/Daily_Summary
Data Use Policy
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https://woudc.org/about/data-policy.php
Distribution
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https://woudc.org/archive/Summaries/TotalOzone/Daily_Summary/o3tot.zip
The data is packaged with zip compression and needs to be unzipped in order
to use the file o3tot.dat.
Dataset Description
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The o3tot.dat file is ASCII encoded with a fixed field coded format. Each
line represents a daily record. Each daily record is 29 characters long with
the following fixed format:
SSSYYYYMMDDHHGGLSXXXEEEIINNNN
SSS is the same as the WOUDC Platform ID (position 1-3)
YYYY is year (position 4-7)
MM is month (position 8-9)
DD is day (position: 10-11)
HH is the start hour of the observation - rounded to whole number where required (position 12-13 - may be blank)
GG is the finish hour of observation (if HH value is given)
OR either the representative hour of observation OR number of Observations; rounded to whole number where required (position 14-15)
L is wavelength pair - typically AD pair for Dobson/Microtops coded 0, coded 8 for Filter instruments and coded 9 for Brewer instruments) (position 16)
S Observation type - typically Direct Sun (DS) coded 0, typically Focused Moon (FM) coded 1, typically Zenith Cloud (ZS) coded 2 or 4,
typically Zenith Blue Sky (ZB) or Focused Sun (FZ) or Global Irradiance (GI) coded 9, ) (position 17)
XXX is the total column ozone amount in Dobson units (position 18-20)
EEE is reserved for ozone standard error - presently blank ((position 21-23)
II is the instrument type (1=Brewer, 3=Dobson, 4=Japanese Dobson, 9=Filter, 99=Microtops/SAOZ/Hoelper/SpecialO3/Vassey/Unknown/Pion) (position 24-25)
NNNN is the instrument serial number (Note: Japanese Dobson numbers are 4 digit numbers) (position 26-29)
Example
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SSSYYYYMMDDHHGGLSXXXEEEIINNNN
00719651202 0500283 45706
Station 007, 1965-12-02, Time of observation 05Z on AD pair (0) using DS (0) for
Japanese Dobson instrument (04) number 5706