Model Predictions of Latitude-Dependent Ozone Depletion Due to Supersonic Transport Operations

Borucki, W. J.; Whitten, R. C.; Watson, Val; Woodward, H. T.; Riegel, C. A.; Capone, L. A.; Becker, Tobias

doi:10.2514/3.61514

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“…Recent concern over possible anthropogenic perturbations of the stratospheric ozone layer has stimulated the development of several two-dimensional (longitudinally averaged) photochemical ozone models [e.g., Hidalgo and Crutzen, 1977;Widhopf et al, 1977;Borucki et al, 1976;Pyle, 1980]. Such models in general use the Eulerian form of the zonally averaged continuity equation.…”

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An advective model for two‐dimensional transport of stratospheric trace species

Holton¹

1981

J. Geophys. Res.

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A parameterization of two‐dimensional transport is developed for application to photochemical models of stratospheric trace species. It is shown that in a first approximation tracer transport in the meridional plane may be treated as an advective, rather than a diffusive, process. The mean meridional motion used in this advective model is a modified Eulerian mean which is a good approximation to the Lagrangian mean motion. The potential of the proposed parameterization is demonstrated by a simple numerical experiment in which the equilibrium distribution is computed for a tracer with a uniform tropospheric source and a stratospheric sink proportional to the local mixing ratio. The resulting distribution is qualitatively in accord with the oberved stratospheric distribution of trace species whose sources are in the troposphere, e.g., N2O.

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