Abstract
Published papers reporting the use of ozone as a tracer are reviewed, and we conclude, as have the authors themselves, that the results are limited by lack of data. The results of a Meteorological Office experiment in which soundings were made at 12-hour intervals from four stations are also reported. In the light of these we are of the opinion that little further progress is likely unless campaigns involving sixty stations and soundings every 3 hours can be launched. This would be a formidable undertaking, and raises the question of whether it would be worth the effort and expense. A more modest approach might be to use aircraft and balloons in conjunction.
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Simmons, E.L., Hamilton, R.A. Ozone as a stratospheric Lagrangian tracer. PAGEOPH 106, 1200–1207 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881072
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