Articles | Volume 25, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17527-2025
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03 Dec 2025
Research article |
| 03 Dec 2025
| 03 Dec 2025
Quantifying the contribution of transport to Antarctic springtime ozone column variability
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- Final revised paper (published on 03 Dec 2025)
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- RC1: 'Great paper. Congratulations!', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Jun 2025
- RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2025-873', Kris Wargan, 21 Sep 2025
- AC1: 'Final author response to the reviewer comments', Hannah Kessenich, 29 Oct 2025
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AR by Hannah Kessenich on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2025)
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Nov 2025) by Rolf Müller
AR by Hannah Kessenich on behalf of the Authors (18 Nov 2025)
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The paper by Kessenich et al. introduces a novel way of using mesospheric CO as a diagnostic for transport affecting the Antarctic stratospheric polar vortex in September and October. They show that CO descent in polar night correlates with many quantities and particularly with the re-supply of ozone from lower latitudes in Antarctic spring and the depth of the Antarctic ozone hole in October / late spring. The paper contains fresh and novel ideas and does a great job presenting and supporting them. It is relevant for the field and very much suited for publication in ACP.
I have only one suggestion: If possible, it would be helpful to have a conceptual picture / figure that shows how the mesospheric descent and the transport into the polar region are connected. Fig. 6 goes a little bit into that direction, but a conceptual picture early on, would probably help for easier understanding of the paper, which then goes into quite a lot of technical detail. Apart from that: a great and well-written paper. Congratulations!