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• A quasi-biennial oscillation signal in general circulation model simulations

  Authors:D. Cariolle, M. Amodei, M. Deque, J.-F. Mahfouf, P. Simon, and H. TeyssedreFrom:Science (Vol. 261, Issue 5126) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 3, 19933,102 words Article The quasi-biennial osciliation (QBO) is a free atmospheric mode that affects the equatorial lower stratosphere. With a quasi-regular frequency, the mean equatorial zonal wind alternates from easterly to westerly regimes....

• Water vapor increase in the lower stratosphere of the Northern Hemisphere due to the Asian monsoon anticyclone observed during the TACTS/ESMVal campaigns

  Authors:Christian Rolf, Peter Hoor, Armin Afchine, Nicole Spelten, and Martin RieseFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 1, 201854 words Author abstract, Bri... Byline: Christian Rolf, Bä,rbel Vogel, Peter Hoor, Armin Afchine, Gebhard Gü,nther, Martina Krä,mer, Rolf Mü,ller, Stefan Mü,ller, Nicole Spelten, Martin Riese To access, purchase, authenticate, or...

• Nonlinear response of modelled stratospheric ozone to changes in greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances in the recent past

  Authors:S. Meul, J. Abalichin, and U. LangematzFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 15, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  June 24, 2015362 words Brief article In the recent past, the evolution of stratospheric ozone (O.sub.3) was affected by both increasing ozone depleting substances (ODSs) and greenhouse gases (GHGs). The impact of the single forcings on O.sub.3 is well...

• Northern Hemisphere stratospheric winds in higher midlatitudes: longitudinal distribution and long-term trends

  Authors:M. Kozubek, P. Krizan, and J. LastovickaFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 27, 2015359 words Brief article, Clini... The Brewer-Dobson circulation (mainly meridional circulation) is very important for stratospheric ozone dynamics and thus for the overall state of the stratosphere. There are some indications that the meridional...

• Probing the subtropical lowermost stratosphere and the tropical upper troposphere and tropopause layer for inorganic bromine

  Authors:Bodo Werner, Jochen Stutz, Max Spolaor, Lisa Scalone, Rasmus Raecke, James Festa, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 25, 2017505 words Author abstract, Bri... We report measurements of CH.sub.4 (measured in situ by the Harvard University Picarro Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer (HUPCRS) and NOAA Unmanned Aircraft System Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species (UCATS)...

• Multi-decadal records of stratospheric composition and their relationship to stratospheric circulation change

  Authors:Anne R. Douglass, Susan E. Strahan, Luke D. Oman, and Richard S. StolarskiFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 17, Issue 19) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 12, 2017240 words Author abstract, Bri... Constituent evolution for 1990--2015 simulated using the Global Modeling Initiative chemistry and transport model driven by meteorological fields from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and...

• The Sectional Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol module (S3A-v1) within the LMDZ general circulation model: description and evaluation against stratospheric aerosol observations

  Authors:Christoph Kleinschmitt, Olivier Boucher, Slimane Bekki, and Ulrich PlattFrom:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 10, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 12, 2017226 words Author abstract, Bri... Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in the climate system by affecting the Earth's radiative budget as well as atmospheric chemistry, and the capabilities to simulate them interactively within global models...

• Role of the stratospheric chemistry-climate interactions in the hot climate conditions of the Eocene

  Authors:Sophie Szopa, Slimane Bekki, Svetlana Botsyun, and Pierre SepulchreFrom:Climate of the Past (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  July 2, 2019401 words Brief article

  The stratospheric ozone layer plays a key role in atmospheric thermal structure and circulation. Although stratospheric ozone distribution is sensitive to changes in trace gases concentrations and climate, the...

• The role of the winter residual circulation in the summer mesopause regions in WACCM

  Authors:Maartje Sanne Kuilman and Bodil KarlssonFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 28, 2018300 words Author abstract, Bri...

  High winter planetary wave activity warms the summer polar mesopause via a link between the two hemispheres. Complex wave-mean-flow interactions take place on a global scale, involving sharpening and weakening of the...

• Recovery of the first ever multi-year lidar dataset of the stratospheric aerosol layer, from Lexington, MA, and Fairbanks, AK, January 1964 to July 1965.

  Authors:Juan-Carlos Antuña-Marrero, Graham W. Mann, John Barnes, Albeht Rodríguez-Vega, Sarah Shallcross, Sandip S. Dhomse, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 13, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 8, 2021536 words Article We report the recovery and processing methodology of the first ever multi-year lidar dataset of the stratospheric aerosol layer. A Q-switched ruby lidar measured 66 vertical profiles of 694 nm attenuated backscatter at...

• Evaluation of stratospheric age of air from CF.sub.4, C.sub.2F.sub.6, C.sub.3F.sub.8, CHF.sub.3, HFC-125, HFC-227ea and SF.sub.6; implications for the calculations of halocarbon lifetimes, fractional release factors and ozone depletion potentials

  Authors:Emma Leedham Elvidge, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Andreas Engel, Paul J. Fraser, Eileen Gallacher, Ray Langenfelds, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 8, 201874 words Brief article, Repor... Byline: Emma Leedham Elvidge, Harald Bö,nisch, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Andreas Engel, Paul J. Fraser, Eileen Gallacher, Ray Langenfelds, Jens Mü,hle, David E. Oram, Eric A. Ray, Anna R. Ridley, Thomas...

• Sensitivity of age of air trends to the derivation method for non-linear increasing inert SF.sub.6.

  Authors:Frauke Fritsch, Hella Garny, Andreas Engel, Harald Bönisch, and Roland EichingerFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 14) Peer-Reviewed

  July 23, 2020529 words Article Mean age of air (AoA) is a diagnostic of transport along the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation. While models consistently show negative trends, long-term time series (1975-2016) of AoA derived from observations...

• Transport pathways from the Asian monsoon anticyclone to the stratosphere

  Authors:Hella Garny and William J. RandelFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 3, 2016310 words Author abstract, Bri... Transport pathways of air originating in the upper-tropospheric Asian monsoon anticyclone are investigated based on three-dimensional trajectories. The Asian monsoon anticyclone emerges in response to persistent deep...

• A comprehensive assessment of tropical stratospheric upwelling in the specified dynamics Community Earth System Model 1.2.2 - Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (CESM (WACCM))

  Authors:Nicholas A. Davis, Sean M. Davis, Robert W. Portmann, Eric Ray, Karen H. Rosenlof, and Pengfei YuFrom:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 24, 2020299 words Brief article Specified dynamics (SD) schemes relax the circulation in climate models toward a reference meteorology to simulate historical variability. These simulations are widely used to isolate the dynamical contributions to...

• From the middle stratosphere to the surface, using nitrous oxide to constrain the stratosphere-troposphere exchange of ozone.

  Authors:Daniel J. Ruiz and Michael J. PratherFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 15, 2022332 words Brief article Stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) is an important source of tropospheric ozone, affecting all of atmospheric chemistry, climate, and air quality. The study of impacts needs STE fluxes to be resolved by latitude and...

• A microphysical connection among biomass burning, cumulus clouds, and stratospheric moisture. (Reports)

  Author:Steven SherwoodFrom:Science (Vol. 295, Issue 5558) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 15, 20023,156 words Article A likely causal chain is established here that connects humidity in the stratosphere, relative humidity near the tropical tropopause, ice crystal size in towering cumulus clouds, and aerosols associated With tropical...

• Glacier evolution in high-mountain Asia under stratospheric sulfate aerosol injection geoengineering

  Authors:Liyun Zhao, Yi Yang, Wei Cheng, Duoying Ji, and John C. MooreFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  June 2, 2017308 words Author abstract, Bri... Geoengineering by stratospheric sulfate aerosol injection may help preserve mountain glaciers by reducing summer temperatures. We examine this hypothesis for the glaciers in high-mountain Asia using a glacier mass...

• Slow feedbacks resulting from strongly enhanced atmospheric methane mixing ratios in a chemistry-climate model with mixed-layer ocean.

  Authors:Laura Stecher, Franziska Winterstein, Martin Dameris, Patrick Jöckel, Michael Ponater, and Markus KunzeFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 19, 2021424 words Article In a previous study the quasi-instantaneous chemical impacts (rapid adjustments) of strongly enhanced methane (CH.sub.4) mixing ratios have been analysed. However, to quantify the influence of the respective slow climate...

• The impact of volcanic aerosol on the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex: mechanisms and sensitivity to forcing structure

  Authors:M. Toohey, M. Bittner, C. Timmreck, and H. SchmidtFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 14, Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 9, 201431 words Brief article Byline: M. Toohey, K. Krü,ger, M. Bittner, C. Timmreck, H. Schmidt To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Solving the PSC Mystery

  Authors:Margaret A. Tolbert and Owen B. ToonFrom:Science (Vol. 292, Issue 5514) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 6, 20011,820 words Article Lurking in the depths of the polar night poised to activate chlorine for ozone destruction, most polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are never seen from Earth, although they can have a vertical extent and breadth...