Is ozone zonal uniform?

[Lij]

I used "FWsc2000climo" for simulation. And i changed the ozone forcing file. Forcing the ozone in the file is three-dimensional(time,lev,lat).
I would like to know whether the ozone is uniform or non-uniform in the latitudes when the model is operating.
If the ozone in the model is non-uniform in latitude, what causes the non-uniform in latitude of ozone and how is the ozone distributed?

 

[mmills]

Ozone is not distributed uniformly in latitude in the Earth's stratosphere. Stratospheric ozone is largely produced by photolysis in the Tropics, and transported poleward by the large-scale (Brewer-Dobson) circulation of the stratosphere. FWsc2000climo is a compset for the specified chemistry version of WACCM, known as SC-WACCM. SC-WACCM uses prescribed ozone fields generated as output from WACCM runs with full (TSMLT1) chemistry.

 

[Lij]

Ozone is not distributed uniformly in latitude in the Earth's stratosphere. Stratospheric ozone is largely produced by photolysis in the Tropics, and transported poleward by the large-scale (Brewer-Dobson) circulation of the stratosphere. FWsc2000climo is a compset for the specified chemistry version of WACCM, known as SC-WACCM. SC-WACCM uses prescribed ozone fields generated as output from WACCM runs with full (TSMLT1) chemistry.

Thank you very much for your answer.
I want to express whether the forcing of ozone (time, Lev, LAT) every 5 days during the operation of "FWSC2000" will cause the zonal heterogeneity of ozone due to "U" or other factors.

 

[mmills]

No, there will not be any zonal heterogeneity in ozone in SC-WACCM. The values used to force ozone in SC-WACCM come from zonal means of 5-day averages of O3 output from WACCM run with interactive chemistry. There is no longitude component to the ozone forcing file, so it is zonally symmetric.