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@ARTICLE{Mller:57828,
author = {Müller, R. and Tilmes, S. and Grooß, J.-U. and Engel, A.
and Oelhaf, H. and Wetzel, G. and Huret, N. and Pirre, M.
and Catoire, V. and Toon, G. and Nakajima, H.},
title = {{I}mpact of mesospheric intrusions on ozone-tracer
relations in the stratospheric polar vortex},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
volume = {112},
issn = {0148-0227},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-57828},
pages = {D23307},
year = {2007},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {[1] Ozone-tracer relations are used to quantify chemical
ozone loss in the polar vortices. The underlying assumptions
for the application of this technique were extensively
discussed in recent years. However, the impact intrusions of
mesospheric air into the polar stratosphere have on
estimates of chemical ozone loss based on the ozone-tracer
technique has not hitherto been studied. Here, we revisit
observations of an intrusion of mesospheric air down to
altitudes of similar to 25 km (similar to 600 K potential
temperature) in the Arctic vortex in 2003. The mesospheric
intrusion was identified in three balloon profiles in
January and March 2003 as a strong enhancement in CO. In
contrast, NOy was not enhanced in the mesospheric air
relative to surrounding air masses as shown by the
measurement in late March 2003. The measurements influenced
by mesospheric air show ozone mixing ratios ranging between
3.6 and 5.6 ppm, which are clearly greater than those found
in the "early vortex" reference relation employed to deduce
chemical ozone loss. Thus the impact of intrusions of
mesospheric air into the polar vortex on chemical ozone loss
estimates based on ozone-tracer relations are likely small;
the correlations cannot be affected in a way that would lead
to an overestimate of ozone depletion. Therefore
ozone-tracer relations may be used for deducing chemical
ozone loss in Arctic winter 2002-2003. Here we use ILAS-II
satellite measurements to deduce an average chemical ozone
loss in the vortex core for the partial column 380-550 K of
37 +/- 11 Dobson units in March and of 50 +/- 10 Dobson
units in April 2003.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-1},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB790},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000251691000003},
doi = {10.1029/2006JD008315},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/57828},
}