Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Stratospheric ozone loss over the Eurasian continent induced by the polar vortex shift

  • Jiankai Zhang,
  • Wenshou Tian,
  • Fei Xie,
  • Martyn P. Chipperfield,
  • Wuhu Feng,
  • Seok-Woo Son,
  • N. Luke Abraham,
  • Alexander T. Archibald,
  • Slimane Bekki,
  • Neal Butchart,
  • Makoto Deushi,
  • Sandip Dhomse,
  • Yuanyuan Han,
  • Patrick Jöckel,
  • Douglas Kinnison,
  • Ole Kirner,
  • Martine Michou,
  • Olaf Morgenstern,
  • Fiona M. O’Connor,
  • Giovanni Pitari,
  • David A. Plummer,
  • Laura E. Revell,
  • Eugene Rozanov,
  • Daniele Visioni,
  • Wuke Wang,
  • Guang Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02565-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Climate change can exert a significant effect on the ozone recovery. Here, the authors show that the Arctic polar vortex shift associated with Arctic sea-ice loss could slow down ozone recovery over the Eurasian continent.