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@ARTICLE{Diallo:911982,
author = {Diallo, Mohamadou A. and Ploeger, Felix and Hegglin,
Michaela Imelda and Ern, Manfred and Grooß, Jens-Uwe and
Khaykin, Sergey and Riese, Martin},
title = {{S}tratospheric water vapour and ozone response to the
quasi-biennial oscillation disruptions in 2016 and 2020},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {22},
number = {21},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2022-05212},
pages = {14303 - 14321},
year = {2022},
abstract = {The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is a major mode of
climate variability in the tropical stratosphere with
quasi-periodically descending westerly and easterly winds,
modulating transport and distributions of key greenhouse
gases such as water vapour and ozone. In 2016 and 2020,
anomalous QBO easterlies disrupted the QBO's mean period of
about 28 months previously observed. Here, we quantify the
impact of these two QBO disruption events on the
Brewer–Dobson circulation and respective distributions of
water vapour and ozone using the ERA5 reanalysis and
Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) satellite observations,
respectively. In 2016, both water vapour and ozone in the
lower stratosphere decreased globally during the QBO
disruption event by up to about $20 \%.$ In 2020, the
lower-stratospheric ozone only weakly decreased during the
QBO disruption event, by up to about $10 \%,$ while the
lower-stratospheric water vapour increased by up to about
$15 \%.$ These dissimilarities in the anomalous
circulation and the related ozone response between the year
2016 and the year 2020 result from differences in the
tropical upwelling and in the secondary circulation of the
QBO caused by differences in anomalous planetary and gravity
wave breaking in the lower stratosphere near the equatorward
upper flanks of the subtropical jet. The anomalous planetary
and gravity wave breaking was stronger in the lower
stratosphere between the tropopause and the altitude of
about 23 km during the QBO disruption events in 2016 than
in 2020. However, the differences in the response of
lower-stratospheric water vapour to the QBO disruption
events between the year 2016 and the year 2020 are mainly
due to the differences in cold-point temperatures induced by
Australian wildfire, which moistened the lower stratosphere,
thereby obscuring the impact of the QBO disruption event in
2020 on water vapour in the lower stratosphere. Our results
highlight the need for a better understanding of the causes
of the QBO disruption, their interplay with other modes of
climate variability in the Indo-Pacific region, including
the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian
Ocean Dipole (IOD), and their impacts on water vapour and
ozone in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere in the
face of a changing climate.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {2112 - Climate Feedbacks (POF4-211) / DFG project 429838442
- Wie wirken sich natürliche Variabilität und anthropogen
bedingte Änderungen auf die stratosphärische Brewer-Dobson
Zirkulation und den Ozonfluss in die Troposphäre aus?},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2112 / G:(GEPRIS)429838442},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000879750300001},
doi = {10.5194/acp-22-14303-2022},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/911982},
}