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Altitude-temporal behaviour of atmospheric ozone, temperature and wind velocity observed at Svalbard

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PETKOV Boyan Hristozon VITALE Vito SVENDBY Tove M. HANSEN Georg H. SOBOLEWSKI Poitr S. LÁSKA Kamil ELSTER Josef PAVLOVA Kseniya VIOLA Angelo MAZZOLA Mauro LUPI Angelo SOLOMATNIKOVA Anna

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Atmospheric Research
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Faculty of Science

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web http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.03.005
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.03.005
Keywords Arctic; atmospheric parameters; ozone; temperature; wind; ozone depletion; ozone response to solar eclipse;
Description The vertical features of the variations in the atmospheric ozone density, temperature and wind velocity observed at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard were studied by applying the principal component analysis to the ozonesounding data collected during the 1992–2016 period. Two data sets corresponding to intra-seasonal (IS) variations, which are composed by harmonics with lower than 1 year periods and inter-annual (IA) variations, characterised by larger periods, were extracted and analysed separately. The IS variations in all the three parameters were found to be composed mainly by harmonics typical for the Madden-Julian Oscillation (from 30- to 60-day periods) and, while the first four principal components (PCs) associated with the temperature and wind contributed about 90% to the IS variations, the ozone IS oscillations appeared to be a higher dimensional object for which the first 15 PCs presented almost the same extent of contribution. The IA variations in the three parameters were consisted of harmonics that correspond to widely registered over the globe Quasi-Biennial, El Nino-Southern, North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations respectively, and the IA variations turned out to be negligible below the tropopause that characterises the Svalbard troposphere as comparatively closed system with respect to the long-period global variations. The behaviour of the first and second PCs associated with IS ozone variations in the time of particular events, like the strong ozone depletion over Arctic in the spring 2011 and solar eclipses was discussed and the changes in the amplitude-frequency features of these PCs were assumed as signs of the atmosphere response to the considered phenomena.
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