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Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-4193-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-4193-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 7
Research article
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09 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 09 Apr 2024

Correction of stratospheric age of air (AoA) derived from sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) for the effect of chemical sinks

Hella Garny, Roland Eichinger, Johannes C. Laube, Eric A. Ray, Gabriele P. Stiller, Harald Bönisch, Laura Saunders, and Marianna Linz

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Transport circulation in the stratosphere is important for the distribution of tracers, but its strength is hard to measure. Mean transport times can be inferred from observations of trace gases with certain properties, such as sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). However, this gas has a chemical sink in the high atmosphere, which can lead to substantial biases in inferred transport times. In this paper we present a method to correct mean transport times derived from SF6 for the effects of chemical sinks.
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