This is important for the light that it shines on
tropospheric ozone chemistry («bad ozone») which is a contributing factor to global warming (albeit one which is about only about 20 % as important as CO2).
Not exact matches
Ozone climatology: Some chemistry / aerosol models will run with interactive stratospheric chemistry while others will prescribe ozone in the stratosphere and only run with detailed tropospheric chemi
Ozone climatology: Some
chemistry / aerosol models will run with interactive stratospheric
chemistry while others will prescribe
ozone in the stratosphere and only run with detailed tropospheric chemi
ozone in the stratosphere and only run with detailed
tropospheric chemistry.
There is considerable interest in a sun and NAM (and SAM) connections via UV /
ozone chemistry and modulating Earth system flows — especially equator to pole stratospheric and
tropospheric pathways.
In terms of atmospheric
chemistry, a strong consensus was reached for the first time that science could predict the changes in
tropospheric ozone in response to scenarios for CH4 and the indirect greenhouse gases (CO, NOx, VOC) and that a quantitative GWP for CO could be reported.
Further, within my field, atmospheric
chemistry, we are very much focused on the other forcings; aerosol and
tropospheric ozone, for instance.
Mickley, L.J., P.P. Murti, D.J. Jacob, J.A. Logan, D.M. Koch, and D. Rind, 1999: Radiative forcing from
tropospheric ozone calculated with a unified
chemistry - climate model.
Shindell, D.T., G. Faluvegi, and N. Bell, 2003: Preindustrial - to - present - day radiative forcing by
tropospheric ozone from improved simulations with the GISS
chemistry - climate GCM.
In contrast, predictions made by the
chemistry - climate models indicate that, as a consequence of
ozone recovery — a factor largely ignored by IPCC models — the
tropospheric winds in the Southern Hemisphere may actually decelerate in the high latitudes and move toward the equator, potentially reversing the direction of climate change in that hemisphere.