Stratospheric lifetime ratio of CFC-11 and CFC-12 from satellite and model climatologies

Hoffmann, L.; Hoppe, C. M.; Müller, R.; Dutton, G. S.; Gille, J. C.; Griessbach, S.; Jones, A.; Meyer, C. I.; Spang, R.; Volk, C. M.; Walker, K. A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12479-2014

Articles | Volume 14, issue 22

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 12479–12497, 2014

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12479-2014

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Special issue: The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) (ACP/GMD inter-journal...

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 12479–12497, 2014

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12479-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 22

Research article 27 Nov 2014

Research article | 27 Nov 2014

Stratospheric lifetime ratio of CFC-11 and CFC-12 from satellite and model climatologies

L. Hoffmann et al.

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RC C4643: 'Comments on acp-2014-373', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Jul 2014
RC C5222: 'Review of Hoffmann et al., "Stratospheric lifetime ratio of CFC-11 and CFC-12 from satellite and model climatologies”', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Jul 2014
RC C5353: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jul 2014
AC C8098: 'Reply to reviews', Lars Hoffmann, 16 Oct 2014

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AR by Lars Hoffmann on behalf of the Authors (16 Oct 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Oct 2014) by Farahnaz Khosrawi

Short summary

Stratospheric lifetimes determine the global warming and ozone depletion potentials of chlorofluorocarbons. We present new estimates of the CFC-11/CFC-12 lifetime ratio from satellite and model data (ACE-FTS, HIRDLS, MIPAS, and EMAC/CLaMS). Our estimates of 0.46+/-0.04 (satellites) and 0.48+/-0.07 (model) are in excellent agreement with the recent SPARC reassessment. Having smaller uncertainties than other studies, our results can help to better constrain future CFC lifetime recommendations.