Calculations of coupled chemistry and transport for the stratosphere are carried out for a 6-day period during the February 1979 stratospheric major warming, using winds derived from a spectral forecast model. All major families of stratospheric chemistry (odd oxygen, odd nitrogen, odd hydrogen, and odd chlorine), as well as longitudinally varying reaction rate coefficients and photolysis rates, are included in the model. Eight constituents and/or families are transported in the model; additional ones are held fixed or inferred by photochemical equilibrium approximations. Results presented include zonal mean fields, latitude-longitude distributions (and their changes with time), vertical profiles, and time series of the mixing ratios of transported constituents and families as well as of their total statospheric column amounts. The results obtained show the relative importance of chemistry and transport for the chlorine-containing species ClO, ClONO2, HCl, and HOCl. Dynamical effects dominate the variablity of HCl, while diurnal ones dominate that of ClONO2 and ClO. Diurnal chemistry and dynamical variability are of similar magnitude for HOCl. The effects of strong planetary wave activity may be seen as large longitudinal variability of the total HCl and ClONO2 columns in the stratosphere; in middle and high northern latitudes it is sufficiently large that it exceeds the diurnal variability of the column. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989