CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRAANNUAL VARIABILIT Y OF OZONE VERTICAL-DISTRIBUTION DERIVED FROM OZONESONDE DATA

The analysis of intra-annual evolution of the latitude-height field of ozone mixing ratios is performed on the basis of ozone soundings at 2 8 stations of the world ozone network with the use of special method o f amplitude-phase characteristics. Peculiarities in the annual ozone c ourse are revealed in the middle and lower stratosphere, free troposph ere and the atmospheric boundary layer in the Arctic, Antarctic and mi ddle latitudes of both hemispheres. Various amplitude and phase charac teristics show, in particular, differences in stratosphere-troposphere interactions during phases of increase and decrease in tropospheric o zone content; specific ozone intra; annual variations in the boundary layer in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere; different regimes of ozone intra-annual variability in the middle stratosphere above and beneath the 20 - 30 mb layer in middle latitudes; specific regimes of developing and filling the Antarctic ozone ''hole''; ozone intra-annu al variation in the neighborhood of the Antarctic tropopause and in th e Antarctic surface layer, and other.