Vortex-averaged Arctic ozone depletion in the winter 2002/2003

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Christensen, T., Knudsen, B. M., Streibel, M., Andersen, S. B., Benesova, A., Braathen, G., Claude, H., Davies, J., De Backer, H., Dier, H., Dorokhov, V., Gerding, M., Gil, M., Henchoz, B., Kelder, H., Kivi, R., Kyrö, E., Litynska, Z., Moore, D., Peters, G., Skrivankova, P., Stübi, R., Turunen, T., Vaughan, G., Viatte, P., Vik, A. F., von der Gathen, P., Zaitcev, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2005
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-131-2005; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00049169; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00048789/acp-5-131-2005.pdf; https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/5/131/2005/acp-5-131-2005.pdf

A total ozone depletion of 68±7 Dobson units between 380 and 525K from 10 December 2002 to 10 March 2003 is derived from ozone sonde data by the vortex-average method, taking into account both diabatic descent of the air masses and transport of air into the vortex. When the vortex is divided into three equal-area regions, the results are 85±9DU for the collar region (closest to the edge), 52±5DU for the vortex centre and 68±7DU for the middle region in between centre and collar. Our results compare well with other studies: We find good agreement with ozone loss deduced from SAOZ data, with results inferred from POAM III observations and with results from tracer-tracer correlations using HF as the long-lived tracer. We find a higher ozone loss than that deduced by tracer-tracer correlations using CH4. We have made a careful comparison with Match results: The results were recalculated using a common time period, vortex edge definition and height interval. The two methods generally compare very well, except at the 475K level which exhibits an unexplained discrepancy.