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@ARTICLE{Konopka:52913,
author = {Konopka, V. E. and Engel, A. and Funke, B. and Müller, R.
and Grooß, J.-U. and Günther, G. and Wetter, T. and
Stiller, G. P. and von Clarmann, T. and Glatthor, N. and
Oelhaf, H. and Wetzel, G. and Lopez-Puertas, M. and Pirre,
M. and Huret, N. and Riese, M.},
title = {{O}zone loss driven by nitrogen oxides and triggered by
stratospheric warmings can outweigh the effect of halogens},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
volume = {112},
issn = {0148-0227},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-52913},
pages = {D05105},
year = {2007},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {Ozone loss in the lower and middle stratosphere in spring
and summer, in particular over polar regions, is driven
mainly by halogens and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Whereas the
stratospheric chlorine levels are expected to decrease in
the future, the role of NOx for the O-3 budget in a changing
climate is not well quantified. Here we combine satellite
measurements and model simulations to diagnose the
accumulated O-3 loss during winter and spring 2002-2003 in
the Arctic polar stratosphere. We show that in a winter
stratosphere strongly disturbed by warmings, O-3 loss
processes driven by halogens and NOx can significantly
overlap within the polar column and become comparable in
magnitude even if a significant, halogen- induced O-3 loss
has occurred. Whereas, until the beginning of March 2003,
polar column O-3 loss was mainly caused by the halogen
chemistry within the vortex at an altitude around 18 km, the
chemical O3 destruction in March and April was dominated by
the NOx chemistry in O3-rich air masses transported from the
subtropics and mixed with the polar air above the region
affected by the halogens. This NOx-related O-3 loss started
around mid-December 2002 in subtropical air masses above 30
km that moved poleward after the major warming in January,
descended to 22 km with an increasing magnitude of O-3 loss
and reached surprisingly high values of up to $50\%$ local
loss around the end of April. To some extent, the NOx-driven
O-3 loss was enhanced by mesospheric air trapped in the
vortex at the beginning of the winter as a layer of few km
in the vertical and transported downward within the vortex.
The effect of NOx transported from the subtropics dominated
the O-3 loss processes in the polar stratosphere in spring
2003, both relative to the effect of the halogens and
relative to the contribution of the mesospheric NOx sources.
A comparison with the 1999/2000 Arctic winter and with the
Antarctic vortex split event in 2002 shows that wave events
triggered by stratospheric warmings may significantly
enhance O3 loss driven by NOx when O-3- and NOx- rich air
masses from the subtropics are transported poleward and are
mixed with the vortex air.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-1 / JARA-SIM},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB790 / I:(DE-Juel1)VDB1045},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000244708200002},
doi = {10.1029/2006JD007064},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/52913},
}