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Articles | Volume 19, issue 20
Articles | Volume 19, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12917-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12917-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 20
Research article
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18 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 18 Oct 2019

How waviness in the circulation changes surface ozone: a viewpoint using local finite-amplitude wave activity

Wenxiu Sun, Peter Hess, Gang Chen, and Simone Tilmes

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Using both observations and a chemistry climate–model we establish that in most locations changes in the waviness of the 500 hPa flow field, as measured by the local anticyclonic wave activity (AWA), explain a significant fraction of the interannual variability in surface ozone over the United States. In addition, we find that the change in AWA in a future climate (circa 2100) is predicted to cause a change in surface ozone ranging between –6 ppb and 6 ppb.
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