Abstract
Four observational results: the intermittency of air temperature; its correlation with ozone photodissociation rate; the diurnal variation of ozone in the upper stratosphere; and the cold bias of meteorological analyses compared to observations, are reviewed. The excitation of photofragments and their persistence of velocity after collision is appealed to as a possible explanation. Consequences are discussed, including the interpretation of the Langevin equation and fluctuation–dissipation in the atmosphere, the role of scale invariance and statistical multifractality, and what the results might mean for the distribution of isotopes among atmospheric molecules. An adjunct of the analysis is an exponent characterizing jet streams. Observational tests are suggested.
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