Millimeter-wave remote sensing of ozone vertical distribution over Moscow in periods of considerable changes in the ozone layer in 2010–2012

Radio physical methods of remote sensing of the Earth´s atmosphere based on spectral measurements of millimeter-wave (MMW) thermal emission of atmospheric gases opened new possibilities for studying changes of the atmosphere and its ozone layer. Ozone plays the key part in protection the Earth´s biosphere against the UV-B solar radiation. Also ozone participates in photochemistry, dynamics, emission and thermal balance of the atmosphere, and the ozone changes are connected with all the processes. So monitoring of the vertical ozone distribution (VOD) is very important. Radio physical methods provide continuous and long-term series of observations and give the most complete picture of altitude-temporal ozone distribution and its variations including both short- and long-term ones.