Articles | Volume 22, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13035-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13035-2022
Research article
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11 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 11 Oct 2022

Dynamics of ENSO-driven stratosphere-to-troposphere transport of ozone over North America

John R. Albers, Amy H. Butler, Andrew O. Langford, Dillon Elsbury, and Melissa L. Breeden

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Albers, J. R. and Newman, M.: Subseasonal predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Environ. Res. Lett., 16, 044024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe781, 2021. 
Albers, J. R., Kiladis, G. N., Birner, T., and Dias, J.: Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Potential Vorticity Intrusions during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 2361–2384, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0238.1, 2016. 
Albers, J. R., Perlwitz, J., Butler, A. H., Birner, T., Kiladis, G. N., Lawrence, Z. D., Manney, G. L., Langford, A. O., and Dias, J.: Mechanisms governing interannual variability of stratosphere-to-troposphere ozone transport, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 234–260, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026890, 2018. 
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Ozone transported from the stratosphere contributes to background ozone concentrations in the free troposphere and to surface ozone exceedance events that affect human health. The physical processes whereby the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) modulates North American stratosphere-to-troposphere ozone transport during spring are documented, and the usefulness of ENSO for predicting ozone events that may cause exceedances in surface air quality standards are assessed.
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