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Simulation of changes in global ozone and atmospheric dynamics in the 21st century with the chemistry-climate model SOCOL

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The solar climate ozone links (SOCOL) three-dimensional chemistry-climate model is used to estimate changes in the ozone and atmospheric dynamics over the 21st century. With this model, four numerical time-slice experiments were conducted for 1980, 2000, 2050, and 2100 conditions. Boundary conditions for sea-surface temperatures, sea-ice parameters, and concentrations of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases were set following the IPCC A1B scenario and the WMO A1 scenario. From the model results, a statistically significant cooling of the model stratosphere was obtained to be 4–5 K for 2000–2050 and 3–5 K for 2050–2100. The temperature of the lower atmosphere increases by 2–3 K over the 21st century. Tropospheric heating significantly enhances the activity of planetary-scale waves at the tropopause. As a result, the Eliassen-Palm flux divergence considerable increases in the middle and upper stratosphere. The intensity of zonal circulation decreases and the meridional residual circulation increases, especially in the winter-spring period of each hemisphere. These dynamic changes, along with a decrease in the concentrations of ozone-depleting gases, result in a faster growth of O3 outside the tropics. For example, by 2050, the total ozone in the middle and high latitudes approaches its model level of 1980 and the ozone hole in Antarctica fills up. The superrecovery of the model ozone layer in the middle and high latitudes of both hemispheres occurs in 2100. The tropical ozone layer recovers far less slowly, reaching a 1980 level only by 2100.

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  1. Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, ul. Karbysheva 7, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    V. A. Zubov, I. V. Rozanova, A. A. Kiselev & I. L. Karol’

  2. Physical-Meteorological Observatory/World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland

    E. V. Rozanov, T. A. Egorova & V. Schmutz

  3. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Eidgenossische Technische Hochshule, Zürich, Switzerland

    E. V. Rozanov

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Zubov, E.V. Rozanov, I.V. Rozanova, T.A. Egorova, A.A. Kiselev, I.L. Karol’, V. Schmutz, 2011, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 330–342.

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Zubov, V.A., Rozanov, E.V., Rozanova, I.V. et al. Simulation of changes in global ozone and atmospheric dynamics in the 21st century with the chemistry-climate model SOCOL. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 47, 301–312 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433811030121

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