Photochemical-radiative damping and instability in the stratosphere. II Numerical results

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Jun 1978

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Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 5, June 1978, p. 523-525. NASA-supported research.

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Atmospheric Chemistry, Dynamic Models, Molecular Relaxation, Ozone, Photochemical Reactions, Stratosphere Radiation, Atmospheric Models, Mathematical Models, Numerical Analysis, Opacity, Vertical Distribution

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In a paper by Strobel (1977), opacity effects on the joint photochemical-radiative relaxation in the stratosphere were evaluated by a linear perturbation analysis. Significant reductions in the photochemical acceleration of the thermal relaxation rate and the ozone photochemical relaxation rate were obtained in the upper stratosphere as a result of opacity changes. For very large vertical scale height ozone density perturbations, amplifying solutions were generated by large opacity changes in the O3 dissociation and heating rates. Such solutions could indicate that the stratosphere does not possess an equilibrium ozone concentration. In the present paper, some illustrative numerical calculations are presented to demonstrate the properties of the amplifying solutions. The results indicate that ungeophysically large disturbances are required and that they cease growth before attainment of geophysically interesting amplitudes, and decay to the unperturbed state.

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