Articles | Volume 19, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12731-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12731-2019
Research article
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11 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 11 Oct 2019

Stratospheric ozone trends for 1985–2018: sensitivity to recent large variability

William T. Ball, Justin Alsing, Johannes Staehelin, Sean M. Davis, Lucien Froidevaux, and Thomas Peter

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We analyse long-term stratospheric ozone (60° S–60° N) trends over the 1985–2018 period. Previous work has suggested that lower stratosphere ozone declined over 1998–2016. We demonstrate that a large ozone upsurge in 2017 is likely related to QBO variability, but that lower stratospheric ozone trends likely remain lower in 2018 than in 1998. Tropical stratospheric ozone (30° S–30° N) shows highly probable decreases in both the lower stratosphere and in the integrated stratospheric ozone layer.
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