Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1313-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1313-2017
Research article
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30 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2017

Time-varying changes in the simulated structure of the Brewer–Dobson Circulation

Chaim I. Garfinkel, Valentina Aquila, Darryn W. Waugh, and Luke D. Oman

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Previous work has noted a discrepancy between models and observations in trends of the large-scale overturning circulation in the stratosphere. Here, we show that a model can simulate trends that are reminiscent of those observed, including space- and time-varying trends in different regions of the stratosphere. We therefore clarify that the statement that is often made that models simulate an accelerated circulation only applies over long time periods and is not true for the past 25 years.
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