1 Basics: Proxies |APSC| and |VPSC|
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4 |APSC| specifies the area at a certain height, which is below a
5 typical temperature threshold below which the chlorine-catalyzed polar
6 ozone depletion takes place. |VPSC| is the corresponding volume in a
7 given height range (here: 14-22 km). Here the average value of this
8 size between mid December and the end of March is considered. Since
9 usually in cold arctic winters there is a stable polar vortex, it has
10 been found empirically that this quantity can provide good
11 approximations for ozone depletion [#]_. High values of |VPSC| mean
15 .. |APSC| replace:: A\ :sub:`PSC`\
16 .. |VPSC| replace:: V\ :sub:`PSC`\
17 .. |H2O| replace:: H\ :sub:`2`\ O
18 .. [#] see e.g. Rex, M. et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi:10.1029/2003GL018844, 2004