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Disturbance of the Stratosphere over Tomsk prior to the 2018 Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming: Effect of ClO Dimer Cycle

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Lidar observations of aerosol and ozone, carried out at Siberian Lidar Station (SLS) of Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences in Tomsk (56°29′ N; 85°3′ E), showed the presence of stratospheric aerosol layers over Tomsk during winter 2017–2018, signs of descending air masses, and deficit of ozone. The Aura OMI/MLS observations indicated that in December-January 2017/2018 the northern Eurasia had been under the impact of Arctic air masses from the Eastern Hemisphere with deficient total ozone (TO) and NO2 contents in the stratosphere, and low temperature in the stratosphere. Analysis of back trajectories and MLS profile-integrated TO showed that due to dynamic disturbance of the Arctic stratosphere in December 2017, cold air masses with excessive reactive chlorine (in view of deficient NO2) were exported from within the Arctic circle to the stratosphere over Tomsk. Seemingly, in the Tomsk stratosphere, after being exposed to solar radiation and to the excessive reactive chlorine (in view of NO2 deficit), and, staying chemically isolated, they evolved into chemically disturbed state, similar in ozone destruction rate to the conditions of the springtime Arctic stratosphere. The correlations between deviations in water vapor and ozone mixing ratios and number concentrations are most strong for mixing ratios, for Eureka, Ny-Ålesund, Jokioinen, St. Petersburg, and Tomsk, and for December 2017 (versus January 2018).

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This work was supported by the State Order of Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (in the part of obtaining the results of measurements) and grant of President of Russian Federation (grant no. MK-2040.2021.1.5 for support of young Russian scientists) (in part of processing and analyzing the results).

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    O. E. Bazhenov, A. A. Nevzorov, A. V. Nevzorov, S. I. Dolgii & A. P. Makeev

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Bazhenov, O.E., Nevzorov, A.A., Nevzorov, A.V. et al. Disturbance of the Stratosphere over Tomsk prior to the 2018 Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming: Effect of ClO Dimer Cycle. Opt. Mem. Neural Networks 30, 146–156 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1060992X21020065

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