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Manney et al. 1995
Manney, G.L., Zurek, R.W., Froidevaux, L. and Waters, J.W. (1995). Evidence for Arctic ozone depletion in late February and early March 1994. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL02229. issn: 0094-8276.

Significant chemical ozone (O3) loss in the 1993--94 Arctic winter occurred mainly during an unusually late cold spell of ~10 days in late Feb/early Mar. Over the 30 d period studied (including the cold spell), observed vortex-averaged O3 at 465 K (~40 hPa) decreased by ~10%. New three-dimensional, diabatic trajectory calculations show that this observed decrease represents only about half of the net chemical loss (~20%) during the 30 day period. The resupply of lower stratospheric O3 by transport in Feb 1994 was considerably greater than in 1993, when transport masked only about a quarter of the chemical loss in Feb/Mar. The net estimated chemical loss over 30 days in 1994 was comparable to that over the same 30 days in 1993, but mainly occurred at a faster rate during the brief cold spell. These results highlight the impact of Arctic interannual variability on the relative roles of chemistry and dynamics in O3 evolution during recent Arctic winters. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Middle atmosphere—composition and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Middle atmosphere—energy deposition
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