Dynamics, Transport and Photochemistry in the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Middle Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport: Some Current Challenges to our Understanding

   • Michael E. McIntyre

   Pages 1-18

3. On Data Sources and Quality for the Southern Hemisphere Stratosphere

   • David J. Karoly, Denise S. Graves

   Pages 19-32

4. The Seasonal Evolution of the Extra-Tropical Stratosphere in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres: Systematic Changes in Potential Vorticity and the Non-Conservative Effects of Radiation

   • A. O’Neill, V. D. Pope

   Pages 33-54

5. The Final Warming of the Stratosphere

   • Carlos R. Mechoso

   Pages 55-69

6. Comparison of the Southern Hemisphere Springs of 1988 and 1987

   • Paul A. Newman, Mark R. Schoeberl, Leslie R. Lait

   Pages 71-89

7. A Comparison of the Dynamic Life Cycles of Tropospheric Medium-Scale Waves and Stratospheric Planetary Waves

   • William J. Randel

   Pages 91-109

8. Traveling Planetary Waves in the Middle Atmosphere

   • Isamu Hirota

   Pages 111-116

9. Dynamical Properties of the Antarctic Circumpolar Vortex Inferred from Aircraft Observations

   • D. L. Hartmann

   Pages 117-134

10. Large Stratospheric Sudden Warming in Antarctic Late Winter and Shallow Ozone Hole in 1988: Observation by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition

    • Hiroshi Kanzawa, Sadao Kawaguchi

    Pages 135-148

11. A Possible Influence of Sea Surface Temperature Variation on the Recent Development of Ozone Hole

    • K. Kodera, K. Yamazaki

    Pages 149-158

12. Gravity Waves in the Southern Hemisphere Middle Atmosphere: A Review of Observations

    • R. A. Vincent

    Pages 159-170

13. Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere

    • David C. Fritts

    Pages 171-189

14. Nitrogen Chemistry in Antarctica: A Brief Review

    • S. Solomon

    Pages 191-201

15. The Potential Role of HOx and ClOx Interactions in the Ozone Hole Photochemistry

    • P. J. Crutzen, C. Brühl

    Pages 203-212

16. Ozone Transport in the Southern Hemisphere

    • K. K. Tung, H. Yang

    Pages 213-215

17. Future Observations of the Middle Atmosphere

    • John C. Gille

    Pages 217-225

18. Modelling and Observations: The use of Diagnostics

    • David G. Andrews

    Pages 227-235

19. Antarctic Ozone Depletion and Potential Effects on the Global Ozone Budget

    • W. L. Grose, R. S. Eckman, R. E. Turner, W. T. Blackshear

    Pages 237-251

20. Back Matter

    Pages 253-257

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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Dynamics, Transport am. Photochemistry in the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere" was held in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 15-17 April 1989. In addition to NATO, the workshop was supported by the University of California, Los Angeles, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S.A. (NASA). The American Meteorological Society was a co-operating organization. The venue for the workshop was the Lone Mountain Conference Center of the University of San Francisco. The workshop was organized and directed by Dr A.O'Neill (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, U.K.) and Prof C.R. Mechoso (Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.). The workshop was the third one held as part of the Middle Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere (MASH) project, an international effort (under the auspices of the Middle Atmosphere Program) to learn more about dynamics, transport and photochemistry in the middle atmosphere of the southern hemisphere. Before the discovery that, during recent years, a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer takes place over Antarctica in spring - the "ozone hole" - the middle atmosphere of the southern hemisphere had received much less attention than that of the northern hemisphere from meteorologists and atmospheric chemists. The MASH project was instituted to remedy this comparative lack of interest.

• Ozone depletion
• Ozone layer
• Scale
• atmosphere
• atmospheric science
• climate
• ozone
• stratosphere
• temperature

• Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, UK

  Alan O’Neill

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