Causes of interannual variability over the southern hemispheric tropospheric ozone maximum

Liu, Junhua; Rodriguez, Jose M.; Steenrod, Stephen D.; Douglass, Anne R.; Logan, Jennifer A.; Olsen, Mark A.; Wargan, Krzysztof; Ziemke, Jerald R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3279-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 3279–3299, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3279-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 3279–3299, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3279-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

Research article 07 Mar 2017

Research article | 07 Mar 2017

Causes of interannual variability over the southern hemispheric tropospheric ozone maximum

Junhua Liu et al.

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Short summary

We quantify the relative contribution of processes controlling the interannual variability (IAV) of tropospheric ozone over the southern hemispheric tropospheric ozone maximum (SHTOM) with GMI chemistry transport model. We use various GMI tracer diagnostics, including a StratO₃ tracer to quantify the stratospheric impact, and tagged CO tracers to track the emission sources. Our result shows that the stratospheric contribution is the most important factor driving the IAV of upper tropospheric O₃.