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Numerical integrations of a one-layer hemispheric model of the winter stratosphere have been carried out at very high resolution (of the order of a fraction of a degree of latitude). The numerical experiments simulate planetary-wave breaking and polar-vortex erosion under conditions far closer to the real winter stratosphere than those assumed in earlier, 'critical-layer' models. The model has implications for stratospheric photochemistry and the Antarctic ozone hole problem.
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Juckes, M., McIntyre, M. A high-resolution one-layer model of breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere. Nature 328, 590–596 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/328590a0
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