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Total ozone and perturbations in the middle stratosphere
Author(s) -
Boville B. W.,
Hare F. K.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49708737404
Subject(s) - stratosphere , polar vortex , ozone , atmospheric sciences , vortex , ozone depletion , polar , environmental science , ozone layer , climatology , sudden stratospheric warming , polar night , meteorology , physics , geology , astronomy
Total ozone amounts are shown to vary with the motion systems of the stratospheric polar vortex. Two cold outbreaks, one over Europe in 1959 and the other over North America in 1960, produced similar pronounced minima in the total ozone records. The results support the hypothesis that major anomalies in the horizontal and seasonal distributions of total ozone are related to dynamical activity in the polar‐night vortex and the stratospheric warm belt.