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This study aims to determine surface ozone (O3) mixing ratios from in situ observations during the Malaysian Antarctic Scientific Expedition Cruise 2016 (MASEC’16), by using The Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) global model assimilation system developed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and satellite products from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (NOAA-AIRS) over the Antarctic Peninsula region. We also compared all three types of observation of surface O3 during the period of MASEC’16. The results showed that surface O3 levels from MACC reanalysis and NOAA-AIRS were twice higher than those from in situ observations over Ushuaia, the Drake Passage (Southern Ocean) and the Antarctic Peninsula respectively. Nevertheless, the surface O3 mixing ratios pattern from MACC and NOAA-AIRS were similar to the in situ measurements where mixing ratios of the surface O3 were in the order of Ushuaia < Southern Ocean < Antarctic Peninsula meaning that the NOAA-AIRS satellite and MACC model products are likely to be effective proxies for atmospheric composition over a given region.
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We would like to thank the Sultan Mizan Antarctic Research Foundation Grant (YPASM) program registered as ZF-2015-001 as part of the Malaysia Antarctic Research Programme (MARP) under the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) GUP-2014-041 for giving opportunities and financial support to the Research Centre for Tropical Climate Change System (IKLIM) of the Institute of Climate change (ICC), UKM to participate in this scientific cruise. Secondly, we would like to thank Professor Dr. Sharifah Mastura Syed Abdullah, director of ICC-UKM. We also like to thank Captain Benjamin Wallis and his R/V Australis crew members and MASEC’16 scientists on board R/V Australis and Envirotech Sdn. Bhd who helped a lot with the exploration activities and Dr. Rose Norman (UK) for her assistance in proofreading this article. This study relies on archived surface O3 data sets that were retrieved from the WMO World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (http://gaw.kishou.go.jp/wdcgg.html). We would also like to thank the international research stations that provided all the data to the website.
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Nadzir, M.S.M., Khan, M.F., Suparta, W., Zainudin, S.K. (2018). Comparison of In situ Observation, NOAA-AIRS Satellite and MACC Model on Surface Ozone Over the Ushuaia, Southern Ocean and Antarctic Peninsula Region. In: Suparta, W., Abdullah, M., Ismail, M. (eds) Space Science and Communication for Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6574-3_4
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