Positive trends in Southern Hemisphere carbonyl sulfide

Kremser, Stefanie; Jones, Nicholas B.; Palm, Mathias; Lejeune, Bernard; Wang, Yuting; Smale, Dan; Deutscher, Nicholas M.

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Positive trends in Southern Hemisphere carbonyl sulfide

Kremser, Stefanie; Jones, Nicholas B.; Palm, Mathias et al.

2015 • In Geophysical Research Letters, 42, p. 9473-9480

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carbonyl sulfide; trends; ground-based measurements

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[en] Transport of carbonyl sulfide (OCS) from the troposphere to the stratosphere contributes sulfur to the stratospheric aerosol layer, which reflects incoming short-wave solar radiation, cooling the climate system. Previous analyses of OCS observations have shown no significant trend, suggesting that OCS is unlikely to be a major contributor to the reported increases in stratospheric aerosol loading and indicating a balanced OCS budget. Here we present analyses of ground-based Fourier transform spectrometer measurements of OCS at three Southern Hemisphere sites spanning 34.45°S to 77.80°S. At all three sites statistically significant positive trends are seen from 2001 to 2014 with an observed overall trend in total column OCS at Wollongong of 0.73 ± 0.03%/yr, at Lauder of 0.43 ± 0.02%/yr, and at Arrival Heights of 0.45 ± 0.05%/yr. These observed trends in OCS imply that the OCS budget is not balanced and could contribute to constraints on current estimates of sources and sinks.

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Earth sciences & physical geography

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Kremser, Stefanie

Jones, Nicholas B.

Palm, Mathias

Lejeune, Bernard ; Université de Liège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Groupe infra-rouge de phys. atmosph. et solaire (GIRPAS)

Wang, Yuting

Smale, Dan

Deutscher, Nicholas M.

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English

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Positive trends in Southern Hemisphere carbonyl sulfide

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06 November 2015

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Geophysical Research Letters

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0094-8276

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1944-8007

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American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States - District of Columbia

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9473-9480

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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Royal Society of New Zealand
NIWA
ARC - Australian Research Council
EU project StratoClim
German Research council

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