@article{3018394,
    title = "Match observations in the Arctic winter 1996/97: High stratospheric ozone loss rates correlate with low temperatures deep inside the polar vortex",
    author = "Schulz, A. and Rex, M. and Steger, J. and Harris, N.R.P. and Braathen, G.O. and Reimer, E. and Alfier, R. and Beck, A. and Alpers, M. and Cisneros, J. and Claude, H. and De Backer, H. and Dier, H. and Dorokhov, V. and Fast, H. and Godin, S. and Hansen, G. and Kanzawa, H. and Kois, B. and Kondo, Y. and Kosmidis, E. and Kyrö, E. and Litynska, Z. and Molyneux, M.J. and Murphy, G. and Nakane, H. and Parrondo, C. and Ravegnani, F. and Varotsos, C. and Vialle, C. and Viatte, P. and Yushkov, V. and Zerefos, C. and Von Der Gathen, P.",
    journal = "GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS",
    year = "2000",
    volume = "27",
    number = "2",
    pages = "205-208",
    publisher = "AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION",
    issn = "0094-8276",
    doi = "10.1029/1999GL010811",
    keywords = "ozone, Upper atmosphere;  Vortex flow, Arctic winter;  Match method;  Polar vortex, Ozone layer",
    abstract = "With the Match technique, which is based on the coordinated release of ozonesondes, chemical ozone loss rates in the Arctic stratospheric vortex in early 1997 have been quantified in a vertical region between 400 K and 550 K. Ozone destruction was observed from mid February to mid March in most of these levels, with maximum loss rates between 25 and 45 ppbv/day. The vortex averaged loss rates and the accumulated vertically integrated ozone loss have been smaller than in the previous two winters, indicating that the record low ozone columns observed in spring 1997 were partly caused by dynamical effects. The observed ozone loss is inhomogeneous through the vortex with the highest loss rates located in the vortex centre, coinciding with the lowest temperatures. Here the loss rates per sunlit hour reached 6 ppbv/h, while the corresponding vortex averaged rates did not exceed 3.9 ppbv/h."
}