Weakening of springtime Arctic ozone depletion with climate change
In the Arctic stratosphere, the combination of chemical ozone depletion by halogenated ozone-depleting substances (hODSs) and dynamic fluctuations can lead to severe ozone minima. These Arctic ozone minima are of great societal concern due to their health and climate impacts. Owing to the success of...
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ftethz:oai:www.research-collection.ethz.ch:20.500.11850/637193 2024-02-11T10:00:24+01:00 Weakening of springtime Arctic ozone depletion with climate change Friedel, Marina id_orcid:0 000-0001-7739-4691 Chiodo, Gabriel id_orcid:0 000-0002-8079-6314 Sukhodolov, Timofei Keeble, James Peter, Thomas id_orcid:0 000-0002-7218-7156 Seeber, Svenja Stenke, Andrea id_orcid:0 000-0002-5916-4013 Akiyoshi, Hideharu Rozanov, Eugene Plummer, David Jöckel, Patrick Zeng, Guang Morgenstern, Olaf Josse, Béatrice 2023 application/application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637193 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000637193 en eng Copernicus info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-23-10235-2023 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNF/Ambizione/180043 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637193 doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000637193 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23 (17) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftethz https://doi.org/20.500.11850/63719310.3929/ethz-b-00063719310.5194/acp-23-10235-2023 2024-01-15T00:51:43Z In the Arctic stratosphere, the combination of chemical ozone depletion by halogenated ozone-depleting substances (hODSs) and dynamic fluctuations can lead to severe ozone minima. These Arctic ozone minima are of great societal concern due to their health and climate impacts. Owing to the success of the Montreal Protocol, hODSs in the stratosphere are gradually declining, resulting in a recovery of the ozone layer. On the other hand, continued greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cool the stratosphere, possibly enhancing the formation of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) and, thus, enabling more efficient chemical ozone destruction. Other processes, such as the acceleration of the Brewer–Dobson circulation, also affect stratospheric temperatures, further complicating the picture. Therefore, it is currently unclear whether major Arctic ozone minima will still occur at the end of the 21st century despite decreasing hODSs. We have examined this question for different emission pathways using simulations conducted within the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI-1 and CCMI-2022) and found large differences in the models' ability to simulate the magnitude of ozone minima in the present-day climate. Models with a generally too-cold polar stratosphere (cold bias) produce pronounced ozone minima under present-day climate conditions because they simulate more PSCs and, thus, high concentrations of active chlorine species (ClOₓ). These models predict the largest decrease in ozone minima in the future. Conversely, models with a warm polar stratosphere (warm bias) have the smallest sensitivity of ozone minima to future changes in hODS and GHG concentrations. As a result, the scatter among models in terms of the magnitude of Arctic spring ozone minima will decrease in the future. Overall, these results suggest that Arctic ozone minima will become weaker over the next decades, largely due to the decline in hODS abundances. We note that none of the models analysed here project a notable increase of ozone minima in the future. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change ETH Zürich Research Collection Arctic |
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In the Arctic stratosphere, the combination of chemical ozone depletion by halogenated ozone-depleting substances (hODSs) and dynamic fluctuations can lead to severe ozone minima. These Arctic ozone minima are of great societal concern due to their health and climate impacts. Owing to the success of the Montreal Protocol, hODSs in the stratosphere are gradually declining, resulting in a recovery of the ozone layer. On the other hand, continued greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cool the stratosphere, possibly enhancing the formation of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) and, thus, enabling more efficient chemical ozone destruction. Other processes, such as the acceleration of the Brewer–Dobson circulation, also affect stratospheric temperatures, further complicating the picture. Therefore, it is currently unclear whether major Arctic ozone minima will still occur at the end of the 21st century despite decreasing hODSs. We have examined this question for different emission pathways using simulations conducted within the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI-1 and CCMI-2022) and found large differences in the models' ability to simulate the magnitude of ozone minima in the present-day climate. Models with a generally too-cold polar stratosphere (cold bias) produce pronounced ozone minima under present-day climate conditions because they simulate more PSCs and, thus, high concentrations of active chlorine species (ClOₓ). These models predict the largest decrease in ozone minima in the future. Conversely, models with a warm polar stratosphere (warm bias) have the smallest sensitivity of ozone minima to future changes in hODS and GHG concentrations. As a result, the scatter among models in terms of the magnitude of Arctic spring ozone minima will decrease in the future. Overall, these results suggest that Arctic ozone minima will become weaker over the next decades, largely due to the decline in hODS abundances. We note that none of the models analysed here project a notable increase of ozone minima in the future. ... |
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Friedel, Marina id_orcid:0 000-0001-7739-4691 Chiodo, Gabriel id_orcid:0 000-0002-8079-6314 Sukhodolov, Timofei Keeble, James Peter, Thomas id_orcid:0 000-0002-7218-7156 Seeber, Svenja Stenke, Andrea id_orcid:0 000-0002-5916-4013 Akiyoshi, Hideharu Rozanov, Eugene Plummer, David Jöckel, Patrick Zeng, Guang Morgenstern, Olaf Josse, Béatrice |
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Friedel, Marina id_orcid:0 000-0001-7739-4691 Chiodo, Gabriel id_orcid:0 000-0002-8079-6314 Sukhodolov, Timofei Keeble, James Peter, Thomas id_orcid:0 000-0002-7218-7156 Seeber, Svenja Stenke, Andrea id_orcid:0 000-0002-5916-4013 Akiyoshi, Hideharu Rozanov, Eugene Plummer, David Jöckel, Patrick Zeng, Guang Morgenstern, Olaf Josse, Béatrice Weakening of springtime Arctic ozone depletion with climate change |
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Weakening of springtime Arctic ozone depletion with climate change |
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Weakening of springtime Arctic ozone depletion with climate change |
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