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\textbf{TODO: following 2 paragraphs to be combined or reworked}   Ozone is present in the troposphere due to a variety of dynamical and photochemical processes, including downward transport from the ozone-rich stratosphere and anthropogenic pollution. Ozone-rich air mixes irreversibly down from the stratosphere during meteorologically conducive conditions \cite{Sprenger2003, Mihalikova2012}; these are referred to as Statosphere - Troposphere Transport events (STTs). In the extra-tropics, STTs most commonly occur during synoptic-scale tropopause folds \cite{Sprenger2003} and are characterised by tongues of high PV air descending to low altitudes. These tongues become elongated and filaments separate from the tongue which mix into tropospheric air. Stratospheric ozone brought deeper (lower) into the troposphere is more likely to affect the surface ozone budget and tropospheric chemistry \cite{Zanis2003}.  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 photochemicalphotochemical  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. While the amount of tropospheric ozone is small compared with that found in the stratosphere, it is an important constituent. The relative contributions to the tropospheric ozone budget of photochemistry and STT (dynamical transport) is still uncertain \cite{Zanis2003}.   A high correlation is found between lower stratospheric and tropospheric ozone \cite{Terao_2008} with the highest STT associated with the jet-streams over the oceans in winter.