Some ozone‐weather relationships in the middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere
Abstract The paper discusses relationships observed between ozone and the upper‐air measurements made at Brisbane, Aspendale and Macquarie Island. The correlation coefficients between the short‐term fluctuations of ozone and the temperatures at 100, 200 and 300 mb levels at these places are presente...
| Published in: | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1963
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.49708938205 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fqj.49708938205 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.49708938205 |
| Summary: | Abstract The paper discusses relationships observed between ozone and the upper‐air measurements made at Brisbane, Aspendale and Macquarie Island. The correlation coefficients between the short‐term fluctuations of ozone and the temperatures at 100, 200 and 300 mb levels at these places are presented. In general, high ozone was observed to be associated with the sinking of the tropopause, descending of stratospheric air, warming of the lower stratosphere and a southerly flow of air in the lower stratosphere. At Macquarie Island, an instance of the ozone fluctuations in the baroclinic waves of the polar night westerly vortex suggested that the middle stratospheric waves contributed to the unexplained long term variance in total ozone. The meteorological parameters at the 200 mb level did not reveal the type of oscillation shown by the spring maximum level of ozone with a periodicity of 24 months. From the study of the 60 mb temperatures, it is concluded that the middle stratospheric circulation is playing an important role in deciding the spring level of ozone in middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. |
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