The Ozone_cci project is part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Programme. Ozone_cci will develop, produce and validate long-term series of high quality global observations of atmospheric ozone derived from multiple satellite instruments that are essential to assess the fate of atmospheric ozone.
The task of the ESA Ozone-cci project is to improve on the scientific and operational exploitation of current European and Third Party Mission ozone monitoring sensors, by creating merged multi-sensors Essential Climate Variable (ECV) ozone time series that match the requirements formulated by GCOS, and allow reducing current uncertainties on the determination of ozone trends.
The Ozone_cci project team consists of 13 European partner institutions which are experts in the area of satellite retrieval algorithms, geophysical validation, system engineering and chemistry-climate modelling.