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Antarctic Ozone Hole seasonal update: after some record-breaking ozone depletion amounts in August the depletion amounts and depletion rates early September have returned to values typical for this time of the year and this decade. That means that at first glance there does not seem to be anything unusual going on. As September is the favored month for ozone layer recovery detection over Antarctica for now all things are in line with expectations. But September still has just started
... we found many indications pointing to a type of dynamical confinement and self lofting. Key here was @esa's #AEOLUS satellite which revealed that this was a rotating disc. The rotation - potential vorticity anomaly - in the stable stratosphere prevents mixing ...
The June 2018 explosive eruption of the #Raikoke volcano injected large amounts of volcanic material directly into the stratosphere. Embedded were two circular structures that remained intact for months. At some point one transferred from the northern Pacific to the subtropics.