Abstract

Ozone is a good tracer of the stratospheric atmospheric motion due to its long lifetime. There ozone is photochemically generated in the upper stratosphere, and is transported into the troposphere, where the Ozone is mainly removed. The satellite ozone sensor is effective for global monitoring. The TOMS data from Nimbus-7 is broadly used, especially for the Antarctic ozone hole monitoring and the temporal trend of ozone density variation. One field of TOMS data usage is the study of the stratosphere-troposphere exchange mechanism. Usually the exchange is said to be caused through the tropopause folding in the mid-latitude associated with the polar and subtropical jet streams. TOMS data shows the good coincidence with the jet stream behaviour[1].

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