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Tropospheric ozone is important for both air quality and climate change. Over the industrial period, tropospheric ozone, the third most potent greenhouse gas has been estimated to exert a radiative forcing equivalent to a quarter of the CO2 forcing. There are two sources of tropospheric ozone: stratosphere troposphere transport (STT) and photochemical photochemical production, with estimated source fluxes of 550 Tgyr-1 and 5100 Tgyr-1, respectively \cite{Stevenson_2006}. Loss processes are chemical destruction and wet deposition.   %(remove the Zanis 2003 ref).   %There is a high correlation between the lower stratospheric ozone concentrations and tropospheric ozone concentrations \cite{Terao_2008}. The highest STT is associated with the jet-streams over the oceans during winter. Irreversible STT of ozone have been shown to be important for explaining tropospheric ozone variability \cite{Tang_2011}.   % Added to background subsection  % cites added to bibliog  %Terao, Y., J. A. Logan, A. R. Douglass, and R. S. Stolarski (2008), Contribution of stratospheric ozone to the interannual variability of tropospheric ozone in the northern extratropics, J Geophys Res-Atmos, 113(D18), doi:10.1029/2008JD009854.  %Stevenson, D. S. et al. (2006), Multimodel ensemble simulations of present‐day and near‐future tropospheric ozone, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 111(D8), doi:10.1029/2005JD006338.  %Tang, Q., and M. J. Prather (2011), Five blind men and an elephant: can NASA Aura measurements quantify the stratosphere-troposphere exchange of ozone flux? Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11(9), 26897–26941, doi:10.5194/acpd-11-26897-2011.               

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