Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6813-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6813-2017
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12 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 12 Jun 2017

Response of trace gases to the disrupted 2015–2016 quasi-biennial oscillation

Olga V. Tweedy, Natalya A. Kramarova, Susan E. Strahan, Paul A. Newman, Lawrence Coy, William J. Randel, Mijeong Park, Darryn W. Waugh, and Stacey M. Frith

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In this study we examined the impact of unprecedented disruption in the wind pattern (the quasi-biennial oscillation, or QBO) in the tropical stratosphere (16–48 km above the ground) on chemicals very important to the stratospheric climate such as ozone (O3). During the 2016 boreal summer, total O3 is lower in the extratropics than during previous QBO cycles due to lifting forced from the disruption. This decrease in O3 led to the increase in surface UV index by 8.5 % compared to the 36 yr mean.
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