Theoretical support for the Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment. Final report
This investigation was to provide theoretical support during and after the deployment of NASA research aircraft to Punta Arenas, Chile during August and September of 1987 to conduct the Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment. The experiment was very successful in demonstrating the role of anthropogenic chlorine in producing the ozone hole over Antarctica during September and October of 1987. The PI worked primarily on using tracer data from the ER-2 aircraft to show that transport could not have caused the ozone hole in 1987, and that transport of chemical species into the polar vortex was very weak during the period of the experiment. The presence of gravity waves was also very apparent in the ER-2 data, and papers were published on this analysis and on the use of meteorological analyses to position the aircraft within the vortex.
- Research Organization:
- Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 5442138
- Report Number(s):
- N-94-13465; NASA-CR-193669; NAS-1.26:193669; CNN: NAGW-1160
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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