Trend and variability in ozone in the tropical lower stratosphere over 2.5 solar cycles observed by SAGE II and OSIRIS

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3479-3496

  Sioris, C E ^a   McLinden, C A ^b   Fioletov, V E ^b   Adams, C ^a   Zawodny, J M ^c   Bourassa, A E ^a   Roth, C Z ^a   Degenstein, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OSIRIS; OZONE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOLAR CYCLE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898002856     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-3479-2014     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Adams, C., Bourassa, A. E., Bathgate, A. F., McLinden, C. A., Lloyd, N. D., Roth, C. Z., Llewellyn, E. J., Zawodny, J. M., Flit-tner, D. E., Manney, G. L., Daffer, W. H., and Degenstein, D. A.: Characterization of Odin-OSIRIS ozone profiles with the SAGE II dataset, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 1447-1459, doi:10.5194/amt-6-1447-2013, 2013.
2. Adams, C., Bourassa, A. E., Sofieva, V., Froidevaux, L., McLinden, C. A., Hubert, D., Lambert, J.-C., Sioris, C. E., and Degenstein, D. A.: Assessment of Odin-OSIRIS ozone measurements from 2001 to the present using MLS, GOMOS, and ozonesondes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 49-64, doi:10.5194/amt-7-49-2014, 2014.
3. Andrews, D. G., Holton, J. R., and Leovy, C. B.: Middle Atmosphere Dynamics, International Geophysical Series, Vol. 40, Academic Press, 489 pp., 1987.
4. Baldwin, M. P., Gray, L. J., Dunkerton, T. J., Hamilton, K., Haynes, P. H., Randel, W. J., Holton, J. R., Alexander, M. J., Hirota, I., Horinouchi, T., Jones, D. B. A., Kinnersley, J. S., Marquardt, C., Sato, K., and Takahashi, M.: The Quasi-biennial oscillation, Rev. Geophys., 39, 179-229, 2001. (Pubitemid 32621043)
5. Bodeker, G. E., Boyd, I. S., and Matthews, W. A.: Trends and variability in vertical ozone and temperature profiles measured by ozonesondes at Lauder, New Zealand: 1986-1996, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 28661-28681, 1998. (Pubitemid 128700223)
6. Bodeker, G. E., Hassler, B., Young, P. J., and Portmann, R. W.: A vertically resolved, global, gap-free ozone database for assessing or constraining global climate model simulations, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 31-43, doi:10.5194/essd-5-31-2013, 2013.
7. Bourassa, A. E., Rieger, L. A., Lloyd, N. D., and Degenstein, D. A.: Odin-OSIRIS stratospheric aerosol data product and SAGE III intercomparison, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 605-614, doi:10.5194/acp-12-605-2012, 2012.
8. Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Buchwitz, M., Frerick, J., Noël, S., and Rozanov, V. V.: SCIAMACHY: Mission objectives and measurement modes, J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 127-150, 1999.
9. Brohede, S., Jones, A., and Jégou, F.: Internal consistency in the Odin stratospheric ozone products, Can. J. Phys., 85, 1275-1285, 2007. (Pubitemid 351195025)
10. Bryan, K., Komro, F. G., Manabe, S., and Spelman, M. J.: Transient climate response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Science, 215, 56-58, 1982. (Pubitemid 12169966)
11. Bunzel, F. and Schmidt, H.: The Brewer-Dobson circulation in a changing climate: Impact of the model configuration, J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 1437-1455, 2013.
12. Butchart, N., Cionni, I., Eyring, V., Shepherd, T., Waugh, D., Akiyoshi, H., Austin, J., Brühl, C., Chipperfield, M., Cordero, E., Dameris, M., Deckert, R., Dhomse, S., Frith, S., Garcia, R., Gettelman, A., Giorgetta, M., Kinnison, D., Li, F., Mancini, E., McLandress, C., Pawson, S., Pitari, G., Plummer, D., Rozanov, E., Sassi, F., Scinocca, J., Shibata, K., Steil, B., and Tian, W.: Chemistry-climate model simulations of 21st century stratospheric climate and circulation changes, J. Climate, 23, 5349-5374, doi:10.1175/ 2010JCLI3404.1, 2010.
13. Chu, W. P., McCormick, M. P., Lenoble, J., Brogniez, C., and Pru-vost, P.: SAGE II Inversion Algorithm, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 8339-8351, 1989.
14. Cooper, M., Martin, R. V., Sauvage, B., Boone, C. D., Walker, K. A., Bernath, P. F., McLinden, C. A., Degenstein, D. A., Volz-Thomas, A., and Wespes, C.: Evaluation of ACE-FTS and OSIRIS Satellite retrievals of ozone and nitric acid in the tropical upper troposphere: Application to ozone production efficiency, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D12306, doi:10.1029/2010JD015056, 2011.
15. Cunnold, D. M., Wang, H. J., Thomason, L. W., Zawodny, J. M., Logan, J. A., and Megretskaia, I. A.: SAGE (version 5.96) ozone trends in the lower stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 4445-4457, 2000.
16. Damadeo, R. P., Zawodny, J. M., Thomason, L. W., and Iyer, N.: SAGE version 7.0 algorithm: application to SAGE II, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 3539-3561, doi:10.5194/amt-6-3539-2013, 2013.
17. Degenstein, D. A., Bourassa, A. E., Roth, C. Z., and Llewellyn, E. J.: Limb scatter ozone retrieval from 10 to 60 km using a multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6521-6529, doi:10.5194/acp-9- 6521-2009, 2009.
18. Dunkerton, T. J.: Annual variation of deseasonalized mean flow acceleration in the equatorial lower stratosphere, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 68, 499-508, 1990.
19. Dunkerton, T. J. and Delisi, D. P.: Climatology of the equatorial lower stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 376-396, 1985.
20. Dupuy, E., Walker, K. A., Kar, J., Boone, C. D., McElroy, C. T., Bernath, P. F., Drummond, J. R., Skelton, R., McLeod, S. D., Hughes, R. C., Nowlan, C. R., Dufour, D. G., Zou, J., Nichitiu, F., Strong, K., Baron, P., Bevilacqua, R. M., Blumenstock, T., Bodeker, G. E., Borsdorff, T., Bourassa, A. E., Bovensmann, H., Boyd, I. S., Bracher, A., Brogniez, C., Burrows, J. P., Catoire, V., Ceccherini, S., Chabrillat, S., Christensen, T., Coffey, M. T., Cortesi, U., Davies, J., De Clercq, C., Degenstein, D. A., De Mazière, M., Demoulin, P., Dodion, J., Firanski, B., Fischer, H., Forbes, G., Froidevaux, L., Fussen, D., Gerard, P., Godin-Beekmann, S., Goutail, F., Granville, J., Griffith, D., Haley, C. S., Hannigan, J. W., Höpfner, M., Jin, J. J., Jones, A., Jones, N. B., Jucks, K., Kagawa, A., Kasai, Y., Kerzenmacher, T. E., Klein-böhl, A., Klekociuk, A. R., Kramer, I., Küllmann, H., Kuttippu-rath, J., Kyrölä, E., Lambert, J.-C., Livesey, N. J., Llewellyn, E. J., Lloyd, N. D., Mahieu, E., Manney, G. L., Marshall, B. T., Mc-Connell, J. C., McCormick, M. P., McDermid, I. S., McHugh, M., McLinden, C. A., Mellqvist, J., Mizutani, K., Murayama, Y., Murtagh, D. P., Oelhaf, H., Parrish, A., Petelina, S. V., Piccolo, C., Pommereau, J.-P., Randall, C. E., Robert, C., Roth, C., Schneider, M., Senten, C., Steck, T., Strandberg, A., Strawbridge, K. B., Sussmann, R., Swart, D. P. J., Tarasick, D. W., Taylor, J. R., Tétard, C., Thomason, L. W., Thompson, A. M., Tully, M. B., Urban, J., Vanhellemont, F., Vigouroux, C., von Clarmann, T., von der Gathen, P., von Savigny, C., Waters, J. W., Witte, J. C., Wolff, M., and Zawodny, J. M.: Validation of ozone measurements from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 287-343, doi:10.5194/acp-9-287-2009, 2009.
21. Fioletov, V. E.: Ozone climatology, trends, and substances that control ozone, Atmos. Ocean, 46, 39-67, 2008.
22. 3 profiles retrieved from limb scatter measurements: Theory, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2601-2604, 2000. (Pubitemid 32040218)
23. Forster, P. M., Bodeker, G., Schofield, R., Solomon, S., and Thompson, D.: Effects of ozone cooling in the tropical lower stratosphere and upper troposphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L23813, doi:10.1029/2007GL031994, 2007. (Pubitemid 351247040)
24. 2 profiles from Odin Optical Spectrograph and Infrared Imager System (OSIRIS) limb-scattered sunlight measurements, J. Geo-phys. Res., 109, D16303, doi:10.1029/2004JD004588, 2004. (Pubitemid 39428424)
25. Hassler, B., Bodeker, G. E., and Dameris, M.: Technical Note: A new global database of trace gases and aerosols from multiple sources of high vertical resolution measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 5403-5421, doi:10.5194/acp-8-5403-2008, 2008.
26. Hood, L. L., Soukharev, B. E., and McCormack, J. P.: Decadal variability of the tropical stratosphere: Secondary influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D11113, doi:10.1029/2009JD012291, 2010.
27. Jones, A., Urban, J., Murtagh, D. P., Eriksson, P., Brohede, S., Haley, C., Degenstein, D., Bourassa, A., von Savigny, C., Sonkaew, T., Rozanov, A., Bovensmann, H., and Burrows, J.: Evolution of stratospheric ozone and water vapour time series studied with satellite measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6055-6075, doi:10.5194/acp-9-6055-2009, 2009.
28. Kalnay E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., Gandin, L., Iredell, M., Saha, S., White, G., Woollen, J., Zhu, Y., Chelliah, M., Ebisuzaki, W., Higgins, W., Janowiak, J., Mo, K. C., Ropelewski, C., Wang, J., Leetmaa, A., Reynolds, R., Jenne, R., and Joseph, D.: The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-470, 1996.
29. Kirgis, G., Leblanc, T., McDermid, I. S., and Walsh, T. D.: Stratospheric ozone interannual variability (1995-2011) as observed by lidar and satellite at Mauna Loa Observatory, HI and Table Mountain Facility, CA, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 5033-5047, doi:10.5194/acp-13-5033-2013, 2013.
30. Konopka, P., Grooß, J.-U., Günther, G., Ploeger, F., Pommrich, R., Müller, R., and Livesey, N.: Annual cycle of ozone at and above the tropical tropopause: observations versus simulations with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 121-132, doi:10.5194/acp-10-121-2010, 2010.
31. Lamarque, J.-F. and Solomon, S.: Impact of changes in climate and halocarbons on recent lower stratosphere ozone and temperature trends, J. Climate, 23, 2599-2611, 2010.
32. Llewellyn, E. J., Lloyd, N. D., Degenstein, D. A., Gattinger, R. L., Petelina, S. V, Bourassa, A. E., Wiensz, J. T., Ivanov, E. V, McDade, I. C., Solheim, B. H., McConnell, J. C., Haley, C. S., Von Savigny, C., Sioris, C. E., McLinden, C. A., Griffioen, E., Kaminski, J., Evans, W. F. J., Puckrin, E., Strong, K., Wehrle, V., Hum, R. H., Kendall, D. J. W., Matsushita, J., Murtagh, D. P., Brohede, S., Stegman, J., Witt, G., Barnes, G., Payne, W. F., Piché, L., Smith, K., Warshaw, G., Deslauniers, D., Marc-hand, P., Richardson, E. H., King, R. A., Wevers, I., McCreath, W., Kyrölä, E., Oikarinen, L., Leppelmeier, G. W., Auvinen, H., Mégie, G., Hauchecorne, A., Lefèvre, F., de La Nöe, J., Ricaud, P., Frisk, U., Sjoberg, F., Von Schéele, F., and Nordh, L.: The OSIRIS instrument on the Odin spacecraft, Can. J. Phys., 82, 411-422, doi:10.1139/P04-005, 2004.
33. McLinden, C. A., Bourassa, A. E., Brohede, S., Cooper, M., De-genstein, D. A., Evans, W. F. J., Gattinger, R. L., Haley, C. S., Llewellyn, E. J., Lloyd, N. D., Loewen, P., Martin, R. V., Mc-Connell, J. C., McDade, I. C., Murtagh, D., Rieger, L., von Savi-gny, C., Sheese, P. E., Sioris, C. E., Solheim, B., and Strong, K.: OSIRIS: a decade of scattered light, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 93, 1845-1863, 2012.
34. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Models and measurements intercomparison II, Ed. NASA/TM-1999-209554, Hampton, VA, 493 pp., 1999.
35. Naujokat, B.: An update of the observed quasi-biennial oscillation of the stratospheric winds over the tropics, J. Atmos. Sci., 43, 1873-1877, 1986.
36. Newman, P. A., Daniel, J. S., Waugh, D. W., and Nash, E. R.: A new formulation of equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine (EESC), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 4537-4552, doi:10.5194/acp-7-4537-2007, 2007. (Pubitemid 47358683)
37. Ploeger, F., Konopka, P., Müller, R., Fueglistaler, S., Schmidt, T., Manners, J. C., Grooß, J.-U., Günther, G., Forster, P. M., and Riese, M.: Horizontal transport affecting trace gas seasonality in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL), J. Geophys. Res., 117, D09303, doi:10.1029/2011JD017267, 2012.
38. Randel, W. J. and Thompson, A. M.: Interannual variability and trends in tropical ozone derived from SAGE II satellite data and SHADOZ ozonesondes, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D07303, doi:10.1029/2010JD015195, 2011.
39. Randel, W. J. and Wu, F.: A stratospheric ozone profile data set for 1979-2005: Variability, trends, and comparisons with column ozone data, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D06313, doi:10.1029/2006JD007339, 2007. (Pubitemid 46824918)
40. Randel, W. J., Park, M., Wu, F., and Livesey, N.: A large annual cycle in ozone above the tropical tropopause linked to the Brewer-Dobson circulation, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4479-4488, 2007.
41. Randel, W. J., Garcia, R. R., Calvo, N., and Marsh, D.: ENSO influence on zonal mean temperature and ozone in the tropical lower stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15822, doi:10.1029/2009GL039343, 2009.
42. Ray, E. A., Holton, J., R., Fishbein, E. F., Froideveaux, L., and Waters, J. W.: The tropical semiannual oscillations in temperature and ozone as observed by the MLS, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3045-3052, 1994.
43. Ray, E. A., Moore, F. L., Rosenlof, K. H., Davis, S. M., Boenisch, H., Morgenstern, O., Smale, D., Rozanov, E., Hegglin, M., Pitari, G., Mancini, E., Braesicke, P., Butchart, N., Hardiman, S., Li, F., Shibata, K., and Plummer, D. A.: Evidence for changes in stratospheric transport and mixing over the past three decades based on multiple data sets and tropical leaky pipe analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D21304, doi:10.1029/2010JD014206, 2010.
44. Reinsel, G. C., Tiao, G. C., DeLuisi, J. J., Mateer, C. L., Miller, A. J., and Frederick, J. E.: Analysis of upper stratospheric Umkehr ozone profile data for trends and the effects of stratospheric aerosols, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 4833-4840, 1984.
45. Rusch, D. W. and Clancy, R. T.: A comparison of ozone trends from SME and SBUV satellite observations and model calculations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 776-779, 1988.
46. Schubert, S. D. and Munteanu, M.-J.: An analysis of tropopause pressure and total ozone correlations, Mon. Weather Rev., 116, 569-582, 1988.
47. Solomon, S., Young, P. J., and Hassler, B.: Uncertainties in the evolution of stratospheric ozone and implications for recent temperature changes in the tropical lower stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L17706, doi:10.1029/2012GL052723, 2012.
48. Strahan, S. E., Schoeberl, M. R., and Steenrod, S. D.: The impact of tropical recirculation on polar composition, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 2471-2480, doi:10.5194/acp-9-2471-2009, 2009.
49. von Savigny, C., Haley, C. S., Sioris, C. E., McDade, I. C., Llewellyn, E. J., Degenstein, D., Evans, W. F. J., Gattinger, R. L., Griffioen, E., Kyrölä, E., Lloyd, N. D., McConnell, J. C., McLinden, C. A., Mégie, G., Murtagh, D. P., Solheim, B., and Strong, K.: Stratospheric ozone profiles retrieved from limb scattered sunlight radiance spectra measured by the OSIRIS instrument on the Odin satellite, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1755, doi:10.1029/2002GL016401, 2003.
50. Wallace, J. M., Panetta, R. L., and Estberg, J.: Representation of the equatorial stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation in EOS phase space, J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1751-1762, 1993. (Pubitemid 24393993)
51. Wang, H. J., Cunnold, D. M., Thomason, L. W., Zawodny, J. M., and Bodeker, G. E.: Assessment of SAGE version 6.1 ozone data quality, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 4691, doi:10.1029/2002JD002418, 2002.
52. Waugh, D. W., Oman, L., Kawa, S. R., Stolarski, R. S., Pawson, S., Douglass, A. R., Newman, P. A., and Nielsen, J. E.: Impacts of climate change on stratospheric ozone recovery, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L03805, doi:10.1029/2008GL036223, 2009.
53. Witte, J. C., Schoeberl, M. R., Douglass, A. R., and Thompson, A. M.: The Quasi-biennial Oscillation and annual variations in tropical ozone from SHADOZ and HALOE, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3929-3936, doi:10.5194/acp-8-3929-2008, 2008.
54. WMO: The Stratosphere 1981; Theory and measurements. WMO Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 11, Geneva, Switzerland, 514 pp., 1982
55. WMO: Report of the international ozone trends panel: 1988. Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 18, Geneva, Switzerland, 829 pp., 1990.
56. WMO: SPARC/IOC/GAW assessment of trends in the vertical distribution of ozone, Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 43, 1998.
57. WMO: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998, Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 44, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999
58. WMO: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2002, Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 47, Geneva, Switzerland, 498 pp., 2003
59. WMO: Scientific assessment of ozone depletion: 2006. Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 50, Geneva, Switzerland, 572 pp., 2007
60. WMO: Scientific assessment of ozone depletion: 2010. Global ozone research and monitoring project-Report No. 52, Geneva, Switzerland, 516 pp., 2011.
61. Wolter, K.: Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI), available at: www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/mei/table.html (last access: 10 May 2013), 2013.
62. Yue, G. K., McCormick, M. P., and Chiou, E. W.: Stratospheric aerosol optical depth observed by the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II: Decay of the El Chichon and Ruiz Volcanic Perturbations, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 5209-5219, 1991.