Relationships Between Ozone and Meteorological Parameters in the Lower Stratosphere

On the correlation between tropopause pressure and ozone above central Europe

“…Meetham [1937] It is apparent that there exists a wide range of values between 10 and more than 60 DU per km. Similarily, the correlation coefficients between total ozone and meteorological variables, in particular the tropopause pressure, varies between 0.3 [Ohring and Muench, 1960] and 0.7 [Schubert and Munteanu, 1988], depending on period, season, latitude, longitude, region and weather pattern. Most work was done to study global, hemispheric or large area related correlations between gridded fields of tropopause parameters and total ozone available from TOMS.…”

Ozone climatology, trends, and substances that control ozone

“…The mechanism responsible for the observed ozone distribution, known as the Brewer-Dobson circulation (see Shepherd (this issue)), was deduced by Dobson and confirmed by Brewer (1949). It was also established that total ozone variations are correlated with meteorological parameters (Dobson and Harrison, 1926) and with lower stratospheric temperatures and geopotential heights (Ohring and Muench, 1959). Ozone studies at that time were largely driven by the expectation that ozone, as an indicator of stratospheric processes, could be used for weather forecasting.…”

On the relationship between Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) ozone and hurricanes

“…Vertically, downward motion associated with an upper tropospheric trough results in an increase in total ozone, whereas upward motion in association with an upper level ridge results in a decrease [ Reed , 1950; Barsby and Diab , 1995]. Furthermore, regions of high total ozone content are associated with high mean integrated potential vorticity (MPV), low temperatures in the upper troposphere, a low tropopause, high temperatures in the lower stratosphere, and low pressures in both the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere [e.g., Normand , 1953; Ohring and Muench , 1960; Penn , 1964, 1965, 1966; Danielsen , 1968; Schubert and Munteanu , 1988; Orlanski et al , 1989; Mote et al , 1991; Riishøjgaard and Källén , 1997].…”