Emergence of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

S Solomon, DJ Ivy, D Kinnison, MJ Mills, RR Neely III… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Industrial chlorofluorocarbons that cause ozone depletion have been phased out under the
Montreal Protocol. A chemically driven increase in polar ozone (or “healing”) is expected in …

[HTML][HTML] Modification of the gravity wave parameterization in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model: Motivation and results

RR Garcia, AK Smith, DE Kinnison… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alexander, MJ, and AW Grimsdell, 2013: Seasonal cycle of orographic gravity wave
occurrence above small islands in the Southern Hemisphere: Implications for effects on the …

Global volcanic aerosol properties derived from emissions, 1990–2014, using CESM1 (WACCM)

MJ Mills, A Schmidt, R Easter… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate representation of global stratospheric aerosols from volcanic and nonvolcanic
sulfur emissions is key to understanding the cooling effects and ozone losses that may be …

Simulation of polar ozone depletion: An update

S Solomon, D Kinnison, J Bandoro… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate polar ozone depletion chemistry using the specified dynamics version of the
Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model for the year 2011. We find that total ozone …

Transport of chemical tracers from the boundary layer to stratosphere associated with the dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon

LL Pan, SB Honomichl, DE Kinnison… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical transport associated with the dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM)
system is investigated using model output from the National Center for Atmospheric …

On the distribution of CO2 and CO in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

RR Garcia, M López‐Puertas, B Funke… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We have used the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) to calculate the
distribution of CO2 and CO in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT), and we have …

Large‐scale atmospheric transport in GEOS replay simulations

C Orbe, LD Oman, SE Strahan… - Journal of Advances …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Offline chemical transport models (CTMs) have traditionally been used to perform studies of
atmospheric chemistry in a fixed dynamical environment. An alternative to using CTMs is to …

On the dynamical control of the mesosphere–lower thermosphere by the lower and middle atmosphere

AK Smith, NM Pedatella, DR Marsh… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) is used to
investigate the dynamical influence of the lower and middle atmosphere on the upper …

Ozonesonde climatology between 1995 and 2011: description, evaluation and applications

S Tilmes, JF Lamarque, LK Emmons… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
An ozone climatology based on ozonesonde measurements taken over the last 17 yr has
been constructed for model evaluation and comparisons to other observations. Vertical …

Stratospheric aerosols, polar stratospheric clouds, and polar ozone depletion after the Mount Calbuco eruption in 2015

Y Zhu, OB Toon, D Kinnison, VL Harvey… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the impact of the 2015 Mount Calbuco eruption and previous eruptions on
stratospheric aerosols, polar stratospheric clouds, and ozone depletion using the …