OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 25, issue 07, article # 6
Bazhenov O. E. Assessing the effects of humidity and temperature in the stratosphere on the occurrence of ozone anomaly in spring of 2011 in Arctic and over northern territory of Russia. // Optika Atmosfery i Okeana. 2012. V. 25. No. 07. P. 589–593 [in Russian].
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Abstract:
The paper studies the temperature, humidity, and ozone anomalies, recorded in March 2011 by the TOMS satellite instrumentation in the stratosphere of Arctic latitudes. Their relation to the decrease in the ozone concentration over Tomsk in April 2011 is analyzed. It is hypothesized that the Arctic phenomena are the result of the competition between the meridional ozone transport from tropical ozone reservoir in winter season and the subsequent ozone loss due to heterogeneous reactions on the surfaces of particles in polar stratospheric clouds, while the midlatitude phenomena are caused by synoptic-scale export of the ozone-depleted humid Arctic air masses.
Keywords:
stratosphere, temperature, humidity, ozone, satellite data, anomalous variations