Meridional transport of ozone in the lower stratosphere

Informazioni relative al progetto

METRO

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: ENV4970520

Progetto chiuso

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 1998

Data di completamento 30 Giugno 2000

Finanziato da

• Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998

Costo totale

Nessun dato

Contributo UE

Nessun dato

Coordinato da

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
France

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Risultati finali

Transport and mixing of chemical constituents in the stratosphere

A European network of ground-based ozone lidars, wind radars and ozonesondes was activated (during the winters of 1997/98 to 1999/2000, in the frame of THESEO and THESEO 2000 campaigns), each time meteorological forecast indicated the pass above one of the stations of the network of an air mass coming from the Arctic or from the subtropics. In complement, an airborne ozone lidar allowed to study in detail some air transport events. A set of high-resolution transport models allowed the activation of the ground-based networks and to plan airborne lidar flights in order to interpret the results. The approach followed during METRO-THESEO, improved our understanding of the role of filamentation processes in the mixing of stratospheric air between Polar Regions, mid-latitudes and sub-tropics. The METRO-THESEO ground based network of lidars/radars/radiosondes, as well as the airborne ozone lidar, were successfully activated on alerts for the study of polar filaments and sub-tropical intrusions. The comparison between observations and simulations made with high-resolution transport models on isentropic surfaces was very satisfactory, indicating that such models are well adapted to predict the presence of ozone laminae due to polar filaments and subtropical intrusions. The mechanisms of formation of filaments under the action of large scale Rossby wave, are now well understood and simulated. Preliminary studies were made to better understand the mechanisms of mixing of such filaments under the action of small scale processes and to quantify the contribution of meridional transport to the stratospheric ozone budget at mid-latitude. However, there is still some work to do in this direction.