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Luther & Duewer 1978
Luther, F.M. and Duewer, W.H. (1978). Effect of changes in stratospheric water vapor on ozone reduction estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research 83: doi: 10.1029/JC083iC05p02395. issn: 0148-0227.

Previous studies of the effect of water vapor on the destruction of ozone n the stratosphere perturbed by NOx or CIX pollutants did not include temperature feedback effects (i.e., they assumed a fixd temperature profile). These studies indicated that if an increase in stratopheric water vapor concentration were induced (perhaps as a result of an increase in the temperature of the tropical tropopause caused by a change in stratospheric ozone), there would be a significant further reduction in total ozone. Our results from using a one-dimensional transport knetics model with a fixed temperature profile confirm these earlier findings.However, when the temperature profile is allowed to change as the species concentration change, the sensitivity of total ozone tochanges in water vapor abundance is greatly reduced. In the case of an NOx injection at 20 km there is even a reversa of sign such that an increase in stratospheric water vapor leads to an ozone increase relative to the case with no change in water vapor.

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