Impact of rocket launch and space debris air pollutant emissions on stratospheric ozone and global climate

RG Ryan, EA Marais, CJ Balhatchet… - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Detailed examination of the impact of modern space launches on the Earth's atmosphere is
crucial, given booming investment in the space industry and an anticipated space tourism …

[HTML][HTML] The 2019 Southern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex weakening and its impacts

EP Lim, HH Hendon, AH Butler… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study offers an overview of the low-frequency (ie, monthly to seasonal) evolution,
dynamics, predictability, and surface impacts of a rare Southern Hemisphere (SH) …

Siege in the southern stratosphere: Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai water vapor excluded from the 2022 Antarctic polar vortex

GL Manney, ML Santee, A Lambert… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We use Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) trace gas measurements to
investigate whether water vapor (H2O) injected into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga …

Stratospheric circulation changes associated with the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai eruption

L Coy, PA Newman, K Wargan… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The 15 January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai underwater volcano
(20.5° S, 175.4° W) injected a record amount of water directly into the stratosphere. This …

Climate impacts and potential drivers of the unprecedented Antarctic ozone holes of 2020 and 2021

S Yook, DWJ Thompson… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The latter months of 2020 and 2021 were marked by two of the largest Antarctic ozone holes
on record. That such large ozone holes occurred despite ongoing ozone recovery raises …

Regional impacts of COVID-19 on carbon dioxide detected worldwide from space

B Weir, D Crisp, CW O'Dell, S Basu, A Chatterjee… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Activity reductions in early 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic led to
unprecedented decreases in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Despite their record size, the …

[HTML][HTML] Record low ozone values over the Arctic in boreal spring 2020

M Dameris, DG Loyola, M Nützel… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Ozone data derived from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) sensor on
board the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite show exceptionally low total ozone columns in the …

A method to derive Fourier–wavelet spectra for the characterization of global-scale waves in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere and its MATLAB and Python …

Y Yamazaki - Geoscientific Model Development, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper describes a simple method for characterizing global-scale waves in the
mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT), such as tides and traveling planetary waves …

NASA GEOS composition forecast modeling system GEOS‐CF v1. 0: Stratospheric composition

KE Knowland, CA Keller, PA Wales… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Composition Forecast (GEOS‐
CF) provides recent estimates and 5‐day forecasts of atmospheric composition to the public …

Signatures of anomalous transport in the 2019/2020 Arctic stratospheric polar vortex

GL Manney, LF Millán, ML Santee… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The exceptionally strong and long‐lived Arctic stratospheric polar vortex in 2019/2020
resulted in large transport anomalies throughout the fall‐winter‐spring period from vortex …