Brewer-Dobson circulation
Circulación Brewer-Dobson
- Date
- 1949-1963 · confidence medium
- Place
- Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Alan West Brewer y G. M. B. Dobson
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A global atmospheric circulation pattern in which tropical air rises into the stratosphere and moves poleward as it descends, proposed by Alan Brewer and Gordon Dobson to explain the distribution of ozone and water vapor.
What it led to
- explains the global distribution of stratospheric ozone
- key to understanding the transport of pollutants to the stratosphere
- its recent acceleration is linked to climate change