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Creating Knowledge from the Confrontation of Observations and Models: The Case of Stratospheric Ozone

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Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years

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Through three examples taken from the history of ozone research, this paper illustrates that knowledge has been created by using simultaneously different approaches and methodologies, and by confronting the information resulting from laboratory studies, observational programs and modeling activities. New knowledge on chemical and dynamical processes in the atmosphere has been produced from detailed studies of the vertical and meridional ozone distributions in the stratosphere, and from investigations on the cause of the formation of the Antarctic ozone hole.

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  2. NCCR Climate and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Brasseur, G., Brasseur, G. (2008). Creating Knowledge from the Confrontation of Observations and Models: The Case of Stratospheric Ozone. In: Brönnimann, S., Luterbacher, J., Ewen, T., Diaz, H., Stolarski, R., Neu, U. (eds) Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6766-2_21

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