Datasets used for analysis and plotting in the study by Zhou et al. "Antarctic vortex dehydration in 2023 as a substantial removal pathway for Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai water vapour"

These data are model simulated water vapour (H2O) and ozone (O3) model mixing ratios between 2022 and 2023 that were used to create figures for the study by Zhou et al. "Antarctic vortex dehydration in 2023 as a substantial removal pathway for Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai water vapour".

We use the TOMCAT/SLIMCAT 3-D off-line chemical transport model (Chipperfield, 2006) to represent the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) H2O plume and quantify its longevity and ozone impacts. The model was run at a horizontal resolution of 2.8 degrees and 32 levels from the surface to about 60 km forced with ECMWF ERA5 meteorology. 

A control simulation (file name with "MPC741") without treatment of HTHH was integrated from 1980 to October 2023. Output from run control for January 1st, 2022 was used to intialise a HTHH H2O perturbed run (run HT, file name with "MPC744") until October 2023 with the injection of 150 Tg of H2O into the low-mid stratosphere at southern subtropical latitudes. To test the possible future evolution of the HTHH H2O three further model runs were performed. These were integrated from January 1st, 2023 until 2030 using repeating ERA-5 meteorology for 2022. Run Con_2022 (file name with "MPC741__2022pd") was an extension of run control; run HT2022 was an extension of run HT (file name with "MPC744_2022pd"), and run HT2022ns (file name with "MPC744_2022pdns") was the same as run HT_2022 but had sedimentation of PSC particles turned off. Please see our paper for more information about the simulations.