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Past exam of the chemistry course of the year 4 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2021 Interdisciplinary paper IDP1 3 e 1 Solution by
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Increasing greenhouse gases generally strengthen the wave-driven Brewer-Dobson circulation: tropical stratospheric upwelling, poleward transport and extratropical descent intensify in model projections. This can shorten transit times, reduce tropical lower-stratospheric ozone by importing ozone-poor air, and increase ozone supply to extratropical regions or the troposphere. Changes in wave propagation and momentum deposition drive the residual circulation; it is not simply a direct thermal overturning inferred from local temperature alone. Regional branches and variability need not all accelerate equally.[ref]
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2022 executive summary. Ozone, climate, and circulation: greenhouse-gas-driven acceleration of global stratospheric transport
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