https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2009-01105-8
Influence of interactive stratospheric chemistry on large-scale air mass exchange in a global circulation model
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Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - Research Unit Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Center for Dynamics of Complex Systems at the University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Corresponding author: thomas.orgis@awi.de
A new globally uniform Lagrangian transport scheme for large ensembles of passive tracer particles is presented and applied to wind data from a coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model that includes interactive dynamical feedback with stratospheric chemistry. This feedback from the chemistry is found to enhance large-scale meridional air mass exchange in the northern winter stratosphere as well as intrusion of stratospheric air into the troposphere, where both effects are due to a weakened polar vortex.
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