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Systems modelling of stratospheric ozone transport and photochemistry

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A scheme of a system of physical and chemical processes controlling the production, transport and destruction of ozone and its gaseous catalysts, as well as other related gases in the low and high stratosphere is presented. An account is made of temperature variations of the stratospheric layer resulting from changes in ozone content; also included is the effect of temperature variations on photochemical reaction rates and ozone and other gases transport between atmospheric layers. Parameters describing major relations of the system are inferred from the analysis of ozone and trace gas data and from the results of model calculations of interdependence between variations in temperature and ozone content of the layer.

An analysis of minor fluctuations of the linearized system shows that photochemical processes are responsible for its aperiodic stability and that gas transport between atmospheric layers destabilizes the system.

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  1. Main Geophysical Observatory, Leningrad, USSR

    I. L. Karol

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Karol, I.L. Systems modelling of stratospheric ozone transport and photochemistry. PAGEOPH 118, 695–705 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01593023

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