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Long-term Trends of Total Ozone

   Figure 1 shows decreasing annual-mean total ozone at Tsukuba from the 1980s until the early 1990s, and then a slight increase until the early 2000s. Recent years have shown interannual variability, but no discernible trend.


Dobson spectrophotometer

Figure 1: Time-series of annual-mean total ozone at Tsukuba (36.06°N, 140.13°E)
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