atmosphere Article The Diurnal Variation in Stratospheric Ozone from MACC Reanalysis, ERA-Interim, WACCM, and Earth Observation Data: Characteristics and Intercomparison Ansgar Schanz 1,†, Klemens Hocke 1,2,* , Niklaus Kämpfer 1,2, Simon Chabrillat 3 , Antje Inness 4, Mathias Palm 5, Justus Notholt 5, Ian Boyd 6 , Alan Parrish 7 and Yasuko Kasai 8,9 1 Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland;
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[email protected] Citation: Schanz, A.; Hocke, K.; † Current address: AWK Group AG, 3008 Bern, Switzerland. Kämpfer, N.; Chabrillat, S.; Inness, A.; Palm, M.; Notholt, J.; Boyd, I.; Parrish, Abstract: In this study, we compare the diurnal variation in stratospheric ozone of the MACC (Moni- A.; Kasai, Y.