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@ARTICLE{Ploeger:13851,
author = {Ploeger, F. and Fueglistaler, S. and Grooß, J.-U. and
Günther, G. and Konopka, P. and Liu, Y.S. and Müller, R.
and Ravegnani, F. and Schiller, C. and Ulanovski, A. and
Riese, M.},
title = {{I}nsight from ozone and water vapour on transport in the
tropical tropopause layer ({TTL})},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {11},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-13851},
pages = {407 - 419},
year = {2011},
note = {We thank T. Birner for helpful discussions, N. Thomas for
programming support, M. Park for providing a SHADOZ-based
ozone climatology and the ECMWF for reanalysis data support.
F. Ploeger further thanks COST/WaVaCS (European Cooperation
for Science and Technology/Atmospheric Water Vapour in the
Climate System action) for funding a short term scientific
mission at DAMTP/Cambridge, where main ideas for this work
were developed.},
abstract = {We explore the potential of ozone observations to constrain
transport processes in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL),
and contrast it with insights that can be obtained from
water vapour. Global fields from Halogen Occultation
Experiment (HALOE) and in-situ observations are predicted
using a backtrajectory approach that captures advection,
instantaneous freeze-drying and photolytical ozone
production. Two different representations of transport
(kinematic and diabatic 3-month backtrajectories based on
ERA-Interim data) are used to evaluate the sensitivity to
differences in transport. Results show that mean profiles
and seasonality of both tracers can be reasonably
reconstructed. Water vapour predictions are similar for both
transport representations, but predictions for ozone are
systematically higher for kinematic transport. Compared to
global HALOE observations, the diabatic model prediction
underestimates the vertical ozone gradient. Comparison of
the kinematic prediction with observations obtained during
the tropical SCOUT-O3 campaign shows a large high bias above
390K potential temperature. We show that ozone predictions
and vertical dispersion of the trajectories are highly
correlated, rendering ozone an interesting tracer for
aspects of transport to which water vapour is not sensitive.
We show that dispersion and mean upwelling have similar
effects on ozone profiles, with slower upwelling and larger
dispersion both leading to higher ozone concentrations.
Analyses of tropical upwelling based on mean transport
characteristics, and model validation have to take into
account this ambiguity between tropical ozone production and
in-mixing from the stratosphere. In turn, ozone provides
constraints on transport in the TTL and lower stratosphere
that cannot be obtained from water vapour.},
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:000286180200027},
doi = {10.5194/acp-11-407-2011},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/13851},
}