TY  - JOUR
T1  - Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Interannual Variability of Total Column Ozone In Africa from Ground-Based Observations
AU - , K.O. Ogunjobi 
JO  - Research Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 2
IS  - 6
SP  - 666
EP  - 672
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-932x
DO  - rjasci.2007.666.672
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2007.666.672
KW  - Troposphere
KW  -ozone content
KW  -photochemical
KW  -anthropogenic
KW  -biomass burning
KW  -trends
AB  - Total Column Ozone (TCO) measured by the Dobson Spectrometer at Lagos, Nigeria (Lat. 6&deg;27<SUP>`</SUP>N, Long 3&deg;24<SUP>`</SUP>E) and Cairo, Egypt (30&deg;03<SUP>`</SUP>N 31&deg;15<SUP>`</SUP> E) has been analysed in this study. The results give the estimate of the long term annual and seasonal trends from January 1994-December 2004. It also provides statistics of means and variability on temporal and spatial scale. Using linear regression, results show that the TCO increases at an average of 1.34 DU/yr (or 0.50%/yr) in Lagos and 0.37 DU/yr (or 0.13%/yr) in Cairo. On the average an increase of 5.5 and 1.4% in tropospheric total column ozone was recorded in Lagos and Cairo, respectively during the eleven year period. The maximum deviation in daily variability of total column ozone were 38 DU (12.5%) and 91DU (23.9%) while the minimum deviation were -45DU (-20.1%) and -68.9DU (-31.0%), respectively for both Lagos and Cairo. The range of the seasonal change in Lagos represents 9.2% of the mean TCO value with maximum in August while its 12.1% in Cairo and maximum recorded in March.
ER  -