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  Forecasts and assimilation experiments of the Antarctic ozone hole 2008

Inness, A., Jones, L., Eskes, H. J., Huijnen, V., Schultz, M. G., Stein, O., et al. (2011). Forecasts and assimilation experiments of the Antarctic ozone hole 2008. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11(5), 1961-1977. doi:10.5194/acp-11-1961-2011.

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Inness, A., Author
Jones, L., Author
Eskes, H. J., Author
Huijnen, V., Author
Schultz, M. G., Author
Stein, O., Author
Cariolle, D., Author
Kinnison, D., Author
Brasseur, G.1, Author
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 Abstract: The 2008 Antarctic ozone hole was one of the largest and most long-lived in recent years. Predictions of the ozone hole were made in near-real time (NRT) and hindcast mode with the Integrated Forecast System (IFS) of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The forecasts were carried out both with and without assimilation of satellite observations from multiple instruments to provide more realistic initial conditions. Three different chemistry schemes were applied for the description of stratospheric ozone chemistry: (i) a linearization of the ozone chemistry, (ii) the stratospheric chemical mechanism of the Model of Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers, version 3, (MOZART-3) and (iii) the relaxation to climatology as implemented in the Transport Model, version 5, (TM5). The IFS uses the latter two schemes by means of a two-way coupled system. Without assimilation, the forecasts showed model-specific shortcomings in predicting start time, extent and duration of the ozone hole. The assimilation of satellite observations from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), the Solar Backscattering Ultraviolet radiometer (SBUV-2) and the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CartograpHY (SCIAMACHY) led to a significant improvement of the forecasts when compared with total columns and vertical profiles from ozone sondes. The combined assimilation of observations from multiple instruments helped to overcome limitations of the ultraviolet (UV) sensors at low solar elevation over Antarctica. The assimilation of data from MLS was crucial to obtain a good agreement with the observed ozone profiles both in the polar stratosphere and troposphere. The ozone analyses by the three model configurations were very similar despite the different underlying chemistry schemes. Using ozone analyses as initial conditions had a very beneficial but variable effect on the predictability of the ozone hole over 15 days. The initialized forecasts with the MOZART-3 chemistry produced the best predictions of the increasing ozone hole whereas the linear scheme showed the best results during the ozonehole closure.

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 Dates: 2011-03-03
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 11 (5) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1961 - 1977 Identifier: ISSN: 1680-7316