Evaluation of the N2O Rate of Change as a Diagnostic of the Stratospheric Brewer-Dobson Circulation in a Chemistry-Climate Model

Daniele Minganti1, Douglas Edward Kinnison2, Simon Henri Chabrillat3, Quentin Errera3, Maxime Prignon4, Emmanuel Mahieu5, Marta Abalos6, Justin Alsing7, Matthias Schneider8, Dan Smale9, Nicholas B Jones10 and Rolando R Garcia11, (1)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Bruxelles (Uccle), Belgium, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (4)Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Earth, Space and Environment, Gothenburg, Sweden, (5)University of Liège, Institut d’Astrophysique et de Geophysique, UR SPHERES, Liège, Belgium, (6)Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (7)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (8)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (9)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Lauder, New Zealand, (10)Univ Wollongong, Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, Wollongong, Australia, (11)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States