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The impact of mixing across the polar vortex edge on Match ozone loss estimates

  • The Match method for quantification of polar chemical ozone loss is investigated mainly with respect to the impact of mixing across the vortex edge onto this estimate. We show for the winter 2002/03 that significant mixing across the vortex edge occurred and was accurately modeled by the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere. Observations of inert tracers and ozone in-situ from HAGAR on the Geophysica aircraft and sondes and also remote from MIPAS on ENVISAT were reproduced well. The model even reproduced a small vortex remnant that was isolated until June 2003 and was observed in-situ by a balloon-borne whole air sampler. We use this CLaMS simulation to quantify the impact of cross vortex edge mixing on the results of the Match method. It is shown that a time integration of the determined vortex average ozone loss rates as performed in Match results in larger ozone loss than the polar vortex average ozone loss in CLaMS. Also, the determination of the Match ozone loss rates can be influenced by mixing. This is especially important below 430 K, where ozone outside the vortex is lower than inside and the vortex boundary is not a strong transport barrier. This effect and further sampling effects cause an offset between vortex average ozone loss rates derived from Match and deduced from CLaMS with an even sampling for the entire vortex. Both, the time-integration of ozone loss and the determination of ozone loss rates for Match are evaluated using the winter 2002/03 CLaMS simulation. These impacts can explain the differences between CLaMS and Match column ozone loss. While the investigated effects somewhat reduce the apparent discrepancy in January ozone loss rates, a discrepancy between simulations and Match remains. However, its contribution to the accumulated ozone loss over the winter is not large.

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Author:Jens-Uwe GrooßORCiDGND, Rolf MüllerORCiD, Paul Konopka, Hildegard-Maria Steinhorst, Andreas EngelORCiD, Tanja Möbius, C.-Michael Volk
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-292598
URL:http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/11725/2007/
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-7-11725-2007
ISSN:1680-7367
ISSN:1680-7375
Parent Title (English):Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions
Publisher:European Geosciences Union
Place of publication:Katlenburg-Lindau
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2007/08/09
Date of first Publication:2007/08/09
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/03/21
Volume:7
Page Number:35
First Page:11725
Last Page:11759
Note:
© Author(s) 2007. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
HeBIS-PPN:335516564
Institutes:Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0