| Weak impact of mixing on chlorine deactivation during SOLVE/THESEO 2000: Lagrangian modeling (CLaMS) versus ER-2 in situ observations (2003) | |||||||||||||
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| Weak impact mixing chlorine deactivation during SOLVE THESEO Lagrangian modeling CLaMS versus situ observations Paul Konopka Jens Uwe Groo Gebhard unther Daniel McKenna Rolf uller Institute for Stratospheric Chemistry ICG ulich Germany James Elkins Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder USA David Fahey Peter Popp Aeronomy Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder USA Short title WEAK IMPACT MIXING CHLORINE DEACTIVATION DURING SOLVE THESEO VERSION FROM May Abstract During the second and third segment the SOLVE campaign February and March the Arctic polar vortex had started disturbed planetary waves and upper stratospheric warming events The perturbations the vortex were associated with transport air from low and mid latitudes into the polar region Filaments with lifetime exceeding weeks were generated regions strong baroclinicity and peeled off the vortex edge The Chemical Lagrangian Model the Stratosphere CLaMS used for the interpretation lamentary structures chemical tracer elds measured board the during the March ights across the edge the polar vortex Both the mixing and the impact mixing the chemistry are considered The isentropic version CLaMS initialized February isentropic levels and comparison the measured Halon correlation curves and time series with corresponding CLaMS results obtained for spatial resolution about indicates weak mixing between vortex and mid latitudes air without | |||||||||||||
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