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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14019-2021
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Research article
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21 Sep 2021
Research article |
| 21 Sep 2021
| 21 Sep 2021
Exceptional loss in ozone in the Arctic winter/spring of 2019/2020
Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur–721302,
India
Wuhu Feng
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, Leeds,
LS2 9PH, UK
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT,
UK
Rolf Müller
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (IEK-7), 52425 Jülich, Germany
Pankaj Kumar
CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur–721302,
India
Sarath Raj
CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur–721302,
India
Gopalakrishna Pillai Gopikrishnan
CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur–721302,
India
Raina Roy
Department of Physical Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and
Technology, Kochi, India
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- Influence of Sulfur Dioxide on Stratospheric Polar Cloud Formation and Ozone Destruction in the Winter–Spring Stratosphere of the Arctic Based on Aura MLS Observations O. Bazhenov
- Tracing the signatures of ozone recovery in the Arctic ozone S. Anjali & J. Kuttippurath
- Trajectory Analysis of Variations in Ozone-Active Components inside the Stratospheric Arctic Vortex Using M2-SCREAM Reanalysis Data A. Lukyanov et al.
- Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Stratospheric Climates in Chemistry Versus No‐Chemistry Climate Models O. Morgenstern et al.
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- The forgotten ocean: Why COP26 must call for vastly greater ambition and urgency to address ocean change D. Laffoley et al.
- Introduction to Special Collection “The Exceptional Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex in 2019/2020: Causes and Consequences” G. Manney et al.
- Retrieval of Stratospheric Ozone Profiles from Limb Scattering Measurements of the Backward Limb Spectrometer on Chinese Space Laboratory Tiangong-2: Preliminary Results S. Liu et al.
- A connection from Siberian snow cover to Arctic stratospheric ozone Q. Wang et al.
- Climatology of Polar Stratospheric Clouds Derived from CALIPSO and SLIMCAT D. Li et al.
- Are springtime Arctic ozone columns predictable from wintertime conditions? H. Rieder et al.
- Validation of Version 1.3 Ozone Measured by the SOFIE Instrument S. Das et al.
- Ozone Profile Retrieval Algorithm Based on GEOS-Chem Model in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere Y. An et al.
- 用于监测临近空间紫外辐射的臭氧反演方法研究 安. AN Yuan et al.
- Ozone Anomalies in the Stratosphere of the Arctic and North Eurasia: Comparison of the 2011 and 2020 Events Using TEMIS and Aura MLS Data O. Bazhenov
- The Unprecedented Ozone Loss in the Arctic Winter and Spring of 2010/2011 and 2019/2020 D. Ardra et al.
- Record Low Arctic Stratospheric Ozone in Spring 2020: Measurements of Ground-Based Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy in Ny-Ålesund during 2017–2021 Q. Li et al.
- The impact of different CO2 and ODS levels on the mean state and variability of the springtime Arctic stratosphere J. Kult-Herdin et al.
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Short summary
The Arctic winter/spring 2020 was one of the coldest with a strong and long-lasting vortex, high chlorine activation, severe denitrification, and unprecedented ozone loss. The loss was even equal to the levels of some of the warm Antarctic winters. Total column ozone values below 220 DU for several weeks and ozone loss saturation were observed during the period. These results show an unusual meteorology and warrant dedicated studies on the impact of climate change on ozone loss.
The Arctic winter/spring 2020 was one of the coldest with a strong and long-lasting vortex, high...
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