Transport and the seasonal variation of ozone

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Sep 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983papge.121.1049r&link_type=abstract

Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH, Volume 121, Issue 5-6, pp. 1049-1064

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Geophysics

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Ozone, Ozone Transport, Stratospheric Warnings

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The transport mechanisms responsible for the seasonal behavior of total ozone are deduced from the comparison of model results to stratospheric data. The seasonal transport is dominated by a combination of the diabatic circulation and transient planetary wave activity acting on a diffusively and photochemically determined background state. The seasonal variation is not correctly modeled as a diffusive process. The buildup of total ozone at high latitudes during winter is dependent upon transient planetary wave activity of sufficient strength to cause the breakdown of the polar vortex. While midwinter warmings are responsible for enhanced ozone transport to high latitudes, the final warming marking the transition from zonal mean westerlies to zonal mean easterlies is the most important event leading to the spring maximum. The final warming is not followed by reacceleration of the mean flow; so that the ozone transport associated with this event is more pronounced than that associated with midwinter warmings.

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