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Photochemical‐radiative damping and instability in the stratosphere, II. Numerical results
Author(s) -
Strobel Darrell F.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/gl005i006p00523
Subject(s) - opacity , radiative transfer , stratosphere , instability , physics , perturbation (astronomy) , ozone , relaxation (psychology) , perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) , atmospheric sciences , computational physics , environmental science , mechanics , meteorology , optics , quantum mechanics , psychology , social psychology
Numerical results of the photochemical relaxation of large vertical scale height ozone density perturbations are presented to illustrate the importance of opacity effects. Instabilities generated by opacity changes are shown to occur only for ungeophysically large disturbances. They have a short growth phase before eventually decaying to the unperturbed state. For disturbances with a vertical scale height comparable to the ozone scale height analytic results from the linear perturbation theory in Paper I accurately describe the joint photochemical‐radiative relaxation above 35 km.