Modeling and diagnosis of the stratospheric circulation / Edward Joseph Charlesworth. Wuppertal, December 14, 2021
Content
- Introduction
- Background
- Radiation
- Stratospheric Transport
- Early Theory Development
- The Residual Circulation
- A Comprehensive Circulation
- Stratospheric Polar Vortices
- Chemicals and Tracers
- Expected Trends
- The Development of Stratospheric Transport Models
- Modeling Stratospheric Transport
- Introduction
- EMAC-CLaMS and EMAC-FFSL
- Models
- Calculation of Age Spectra in a Model
- Forward Tracers
- The EMAC-CLaMS Lower and Upper Boundary
- Differences in the Zonal Mean State: Global Perspective
- Differences in the representation of transport processes
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Radiative Effects of Stratospheric Water Vapor
- Radiative Coupling
- Experiment Design
- Water Differences
- Temperature Differences
- Recent Literature Context
- Conclusions
- Quantifying Brewer-Dobson Circulation Variability from Ozone Observations
- Current Knowledge
- Effective Upwelling
- Validity of Proxy Assumption
- Upwelling Seasonal Cycle
- Timeseries
- Correlations with Reanalyses
- Limitations of the Method
- Validity at other levels
- Application of SHADOZ data
- Calculation of Photolysis Rates
- Simple Calculation
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- A Closing Word
- Bibliography
- Photolysis of Diatomic Oxygen