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Jul 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jats...42.1455h&link_type=abstract
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (ISSN 0022-4928), vol. 42, July 1, 1985, p. 1455-1463.
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Atmospheric Composition, Gas Composition, Midlatitude Atmosphere, Stratosphere, Summer, Trace Contaminants, Chlorofluoromethane, Differential Equations, Halocarbons, Methane, Nitrous Oxides, Noaa Satellites, Planetary Waves, Stratospheric Warming
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Temporal variances in the concentrations of N2O, CF2Cl2, CFCl3 and CH4 in the summer stratosphere at a midlatitude location have been measured by Ehhalt and others. A simple dynamical model is used to argue that these variances are created by irreversible mixing associated with the springtime final stratospheric warming. Tracer perturbations generated during the warming are advected passively in the zonal mean easterlies so that the tracer variance is effectively frozen into the summertime stratosphere. Temperature perturbations, on the other hand, are subject to radiative dissipation; the temperature variance created during the final warming relaxes quickly to an ambient value.
Hess Peter G.
Holton James R.
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