Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.2877k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 20, Issue 24, p. 2877-2880
Physics
Geophysics
4
History Of Geophysics: Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology, Information Related To Geographic Region: Africa
Scientific paper
Trends in total ozone for the period 1979 to 1991 over the southern African subcontinent and the southern ocean islands of Marion and Gough and the South African Antarctic base of SANAE are examined. Version 6 TOMS data are used. With the exception of the low latitude stations (Nairobi and Harare), where a marginally increasing trend (+0.2% and +0.3%, respectively) was observed, the other stations all exhibited a decreasing trend in total ozone over the 13 year period, ranging between -1.1 and -2.6% over most of South Africa, increasing with latitude to reach -20.6% at SANAE. Inter-annual fluctuations at Nairobi are dominated by a QBO, with maximum ozone occurring during the westerly phase of the QBO. At the extratropical locations, ozone peaks and troughs are anti-correlated with those at Nairobi and the QBO signal is less well developed and modulated by the seasonal cycle.
Diab R. D.
Kalicharran S.
Sokolic Franjo
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