Total ozone variability and trends over the South Pole during the wintertime

• Main Authors: Fioletov, Vitali, Zhao, Xiaoyi, Abboud, Ihab, Brohart, Michael, Ogyu, Akira, Sit, Reno, Lee, Sum Chi, Petropavlovskikh, Irina, Miyagawa, Koji, Johnson, Bryan J., Cullis, Patrick, Booth, John, McConville, Glen, McElroy, C. Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2023
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Antarctic; Merra; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-773; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00066549; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00065030/egusphere-2023-773.pdf; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023/egusphere-2023-773/egusphere-2023-773.pdf

The Antarctic polar vortex creates unique chemical and dynamical conditions when the stratospheric air over Antarctica is isolated from the rest of the stratosphere. As a result, stratospheric ozone within the vortex remains largely unchanged for a five-month period from April until late August when...