Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) Network

The Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) is a project to augment balloon-borne ozonesonde launches and to archive data from tropical and subtropical operational sites. The project was initiated in 1998 by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center with NOAA and international co-investigators in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. There are currently twelve operational stations in the network with three heritage stations. The collective data set provides the first profile climatology of tropical ozone in the equatorial region, enhances validation studies aimed at improving satellite remote sensing techniques for tropical ozone estimations, and serves as an educational tool for students, especially in the participating countries. As a flexible archive, SHADOZ has grown and evolved as scientific needs and research questioned change.

Data are collected and available publicly at the SHADOZ official website: http://croc.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz. Station locations, Co-Investigator contacts and technical details of the operations are also archived at the website.