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A warmer troposphere does not imply a warmer stratosphere: increased carbon dioxide can cool the middle and upper stratosphere by enhancing infrared emission. One direct kinetic effect is slower temperature-dependent destruction in the Chapman cycle, tending to increase upper-stratospheric ozone. Two indirect chemical effects can have the opposite sign. If the entry atmospheric cold trap warms, it can admit more water; reaction with an electronically excited oxygen atom then supplies more of the HOx family, enhancing catalytic ozone loss. In cold polar air, changes in water and temperature can favour polar stratospheric clouds, whose surfaces activate halogen reservoirs and can enhance ozone destruction when sunlight returns. These are conditional pathways, not a universal sign for total ozone: cold-trap temperature and circulation, halogen abundance and altitude all matter. Methane oxidation can also supply stratospheric water.^[ref]

Using an isothermal atmosphere with the stated scale height gives $p(30\mathrm{km})=10^5{e}^{-30/7}\mathrm{Pa}$ and $[\mathrm{M}]=p/(k_{B}T)=3.46\times 10^{17}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}$ at $288\mathrm{K}$. The water atmospheric mixing ratio then gives $[{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}]=6.92\times 10^{11}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}$. Applying steady state to the short-lived electronically excited oxygen atom,Its HOx family source is $S=2k_3[\mathrm{O}({}^{1}D)][{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}]\simeq 6.00\times 10^3\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. Balancing this with termination gives $2k_4[\mathrm{OH}][\mathrm{H}{\mathrm{O}}_2]=S$. Combining with the rapid partition, or solving both stationary radical equations including termination, givesConsequently the main catalytic odd-oxygen loss isThe Chapman cycle loss is $L_{\mathrm{Ch}}=2k_9[\mathrm{O}][{\mathrm{O}}_3]=5.40\times 10^5\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$, so the given HO${}_x$ cycle is about 2.35 times larger. Both rates count two odd-oxygen units per completed O-plus-O${}_3$ destruction event. The omitted $v_4\simeq 3.00\times 10^3$ correction is only about $0.24\%$ of the main HO${}_x$ loss. The family abundance divided by its source is about $5.87\times 10^4\mathrm{s}$, explaining why its absolute stationary state is a stronger assumption than rapid OH/HO${}_2$ interconversion.

With $[{\mathrm{H}}_2]=5\times 10^{-6}[\mathrm{M}]$, a reaction of an electronically excited oxygen atom with hydrogen gives one OH and, after rapid H conversion, one HO${}_2$. The radical source becomesThis is about 4.75 times the original source. Holding water, oxygen, NO and radiation fixed keeps the fast radical partition approximately unchanged, while bimolecular termination makes total radical abundance scale as $\sqrt{S}$. Thusabout 2.18 times the original catalytic loss. This predicts a stronger ozone-loss tendency within the specified stationary box model, not a numerically determined percentage change in the ozone layer. The latter requires coupled odd-oxygen production, changing ozone concentrations, transport and the longer-term water budget; those have been held fixed here.