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Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange of Ozone

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Tropospheric Ozone

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIC,volume 227))

Abstract

The flux of ozone from stratosphere to troposphere is highly episodic, occurring mostly in conjunction with baroclinic instability and the amplification of large-scale troughs in the upper tropospheric flow. Tropopause folding has been studied extensively over the past 30 years, and its salient features are now understood both experimentally and theoretically. Important questions remain, however, about its exact contribution to the cross-tropopause ozone flux. Other exchange mechanisms have been postulated but not studied in detail -e.g. cut-off lows and steady jet streams. Estimates of the global flux of stratospheric ozone into the troposphere derived from radioactivity measurements in the 1960s are in reasonable agreement with recent calculations using general circulation models, but many areas of uncertainty surround both types of estimate.

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Vaughan, G. (1988). Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange of Ozone. In: Isaksen, I.S.A. (eds) Tropospheric Ozone. NATO ASI Series, vol 227. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2913-5_9

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