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T1 Age of stratospheric air: Progress on processes, observations, and long-term trends
A1 Garny, H.
A1 Ploeger, F.
A1 Ábalos Álvarez, Marta
A1 Bönisch, H.
A1 Castillo, A. E.
A1 Clarmann, T. von
A1 Diallo, M.
A1 Engel, A.
A1 Laube, J. C.
A1 Linz, M.
A1 Neu, J. L.
A1 Podglajen, A.
A1 Ray, E.
A1 Rivoire, L.
A1 Saunders, L. N.
A1 Stiller, G.
A1 Voet, F.
A1 Wagenhäuser, T.
A1 Walker, K. A.
AB Age of stratospheric air is a well established metric for the stratospheric transport circulation. Rooted in a robust theoretical framework, this approach offers the benefit of being deducible from observations of trace gases. Given potential climate‐induced changes, observational constraints on stratospheric circulation are crucial. In the past two decades, scientific progress has been made in three main areas: (a) Enhanced process understanding and the development of process diagnostics led to better quantification of individual transport processes from observations and to a better understanding of model deficits. (b) The global age of air climatology is now well constrained by observations thanks to improved quality and quantity of data, including global satellite data, and through improved and consistent age calculation methods. (c) It is well established and understood that global models predict a decrease in age, that is, an accelerating stratospheric circulation, in response to forcing by greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances. Observational records now confirm long‐term forced trends in mean age in the lower stratosphere. However, in the mid‐stratosphere, uncertainties in observational records are too large to confirm or disprove the model predictions. Continuous monitoring of stratospheric trace gases and further improved methods to derive age from those tracers will be crucial to better constrain variability and long‐term trends from observations. Future work on mean age as a metric for stratospheric transport will be important due to its potential to enhance the understanding of stratospheric composition changes, address climate model biases, and assess the impacts of proposed climate geoengineering methods.
PB American Geophysical Union; Wiley
SN 8755-1209
YR 2024
FD 2024-10-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/138701
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/138701
LA eng
NO Garny, H., Ploeger, F., Abalos, M., Bönisch, H., Castillo, A. E., von Clarmann, T., et al. (2024). Age of stratospheric air: Progress on processes, observations, and long‐term trends. Reviews of Geophysics, 62, e2023RG000832. https://doi.org/10. 1029/2023RG000832
NO © 2024. The Author(s)80NM0018D0004
NO European Commission
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Investigación (España)
NO Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
NO German Research Foundation
NO Canadian Space Agency
NO Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
NO California Institute of Technology
NO NASA
NO Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 26 jul 2026