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Detection of Large Fluctuations in Ozone Content in the Middle Atmosphere during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Subpolar Latitudes of the Arctic

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The results of microwave radiometry studies of the ozone-content dynamics in the middle atmosphere above Peterhof during stratospheric warmings of two winters, 2015–2016 and 2016–2017, are presented. Ground-based observations employed mobile microwave ozone-measuring instrument (operating frequency is 110.8 GHz). The vertical ozone distribution in the altitude range of 22–60 km is estimated. The results are compared to satellite-borne data on the total ozone content, to vertical profiles of the ozone and temperature in the middle atmosphere, and to data from an ozone-measuring sounder. In the middle atmosphere above Peterhof, there have been significant variations (by several times) in the ozone content at heights of 40–60 km due to minor stratospheric warming.

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The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 15-05-04249 and 18-45-520009).

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Yu. Yu. Kulikov & V. G. Ryskin

  2. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. V. Poberovskii

  3. Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, Russia

    V. A. Yushkov

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Kulikov, Y.Y., Poberovskii, A.V., Ryskin, V.G. et al. Detection of Large Fluctuations in Ozone Content in the Middle Atmosphere during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Subpolar Latitudes of the Arctic. Geomagn. Aeron. 60, 254–262 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793220020097

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