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@ARTICLE{Tilmes:12594,
author = {Tilmes, S. and Pan, L.L. and Hoor, P. and Atlas, E. and
Avery, M.A. and Campos, T. and Cristensen, L.E. and Diskin,
G.S. and Gao, R.-S. and Herman, R.L. and Hintsa, E.J. and
Loewenstein, M. and Lopez, J. and Paige, M.E. and Pittman,
J.V. and Podolske, J.r. and Proffitt, J.R. and Sachse, G.W.
and Schiller, C. and Schlager, H. and Smith, J. and Spelten,
N. and Webster, C. and Weinheimer, A. and Zondlo, M.A.},
title = {{A}n {A}ircraft-based {U}pper {T}roposphere {L}ower
{S}tratosphere {O}3, {CO} and {H}2{O} {C}limatology for the
{N}orthern {H}emisphere},
journal = {Journal of geophysical research / Atmospheres},
volume = {115},
issn = {0022-1406},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-12594},
pages = {D14303},
year = {2010},
note = {This work is supported in part by the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in support by the National
Science Foundation and by the NASA Upper Atmosphere Program.
Research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was performed
under contract with NASA. Thanks are also due to NCEP
Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) for providing
meteorological analysis. The authors thank Louisa Emmons and
Rolando Garcia for helpful comments and suggestions.},
abstract = {We present a climatology of O-3, CO, and H2O for the upper
troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), based on a large
collection of high-resolution research aircraft data taken
between 1995 and 2008. To group aircraft observations with
sparse horizontal coverage, the UTLS is divided into three
regimes: the tropics, subtropics, and the polar region.
These regimes are defined using a set of simple criteria
based on tropopause height and multiple tropopause
conditions. Tropopause-referenced tracer profiles and
tracer-tracer correlations show distinct characteristics for
each regime, which reflect the underlying transport
processes. The UTLS climatology derived here shows many
features of earlier climatologies. In addition, mixed air
masses in the subtropics, identified by O-3-CO correlations,
show two characteristic modes in the tracer-tracer space
that are a result of mixed air masses in layers above and
below the tropopause (TP). A thin layer of mixed air (1-2 km
around the tropopause) is identified for all regions and
seasons, where tracer gradients across the TP are largest.
The most pronounced influence of mixing between the tropical
transition layer and the subtropics was found in spring and
summer in the region above 380 K potential temperature. The
vertical extent of mixed air masses between UT and LS
reaches up to 5 km above the TP. The tracer correlations and
distributions in the UTLS derived here can serve as a
reference for model and satellite data evaluation.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000280328800001},
doi = {10.1029/2009JD012731},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/12594},
}