Ozone Content over the Russian Federationin the Third Quarter of 2015

A. M. Zvyagintsev, N. S. Ivanova, G. M. Kruchenitskii, I. N. Kuznetsova, and V. A. Lapchenko

The review is compiled on the basis of the operation of the total ozone (TO) monitoring in the CIS and Baltic countries that functions in the operational regime at the Central Aerological Observatory (CAO). The monitoring system uses the data from the national network equipped with M-124 filter ozonometers under methodological supervision of the Main Geophysical Observatory. The quality of the functioning of the entire system is under the operational control based on the observations obtained from the OMI satellite equipment (NASA, the United States). The basic TO observation data are generalized for each month of the third quarter of 2015 and for the quarter as a whole. The review also provides the results of regular observations of surface ozone content carried out in the Moscow region characterizing surface ozone values in the center of the European part of Russia as well as in Kara Dag Natural Reserve in Crimea.