W.: Decadal evolution of the Antarctic ozone hole
Abstract. Ozone column amounts obtained by the total ozone mapping spectrometer (TOMS) in the southern polar region are analyzed during late austral winter and spring (days 240-300) for 1980-1991 using area-mapping techniques and area-weighted vortex averages. The vortex here is defined using the-50...
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1996
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.623.7990 http://yly-mac.gps.caltech.edu/ReprintsYLY/z_Bibliography_soozen/N092Jiang_1996DeccadalEvo.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract. Ozone column amounts obtained by the total ozone mapping spectrometer (TOMS) in the southern polar region are analyzed during late austral winter and spring (days 240-300) for 1980-1991 using area-mapping techniques and area-weighted vortex averages. The vortex here is defined using the-50 PVU (1 PVU- 1.0 x 10-6 K kg-1 m 2 s'l) contour on the 500 K isentropic surface. The principal results are: (1) there is a distinct change after 1985 in the vortex-averaged column ozone depletion rate during September and October, the period of maximum ozone loss, and (2) the vortex-averaged column ozone in late August (day 240) has dropped by 70 Dobson units (DU) in a decade due to the loss in the dark and the dilution effect. The mean ozone depletion rate in the vortex between day 240 and the day of minimum 1 vortex-averaged ozone is about 1 DU d- at the beginning of the decade, increasing to 1 about 1.8 DU d- by 1985, and then apparently saturating thereafter. The vortex-average column ozone during September and October has declined at the rate of 11.3 DU yr- • (3.8%) from 1980 to 1987 (90 DU over 8 years) and at a smaller rate of 2 |
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