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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031251
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The 2004/2005 Arctic winter was unusually cold with high potential for Polar Stratospheric Clouds formation. We use O(3) and N(2)O assimilated fields from Aura/MLS in order to describe the dynamical processes inside the polar vortex during this winter. The evolution of N(2)O assimilated field shows that subsidence was the dominant dynamical process between early December and late January. The mixing effect between the polar vortex and midlatitudes has been diagnosed using the effective diffusivity parameter. It shows that from early February to the end of March, mixing was dominant compared to diabatic descent. The vortex-averaged ozone loss profile from O(3) assimilated field shows a maximum of similar to 1.5 ppmv at 425 K, which is less pronounced compared to other winters of similar meteorological conditions (e. g., 1999/2000). This is due to the importance of the mixing processes between the polar vortex and midlatitudes which bring in ozone-rich air to the vortex.
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