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@ARTICLE{Plger:17546,
author = {Plöger, F. and Konopka, P. and Müller, R. and
Fueglistaler, S. and Schmidt, T. and Manners, J.C. and
Grooß, J.-U. and Günther, G. and Riese, M.},
title = {{H}orizontal transport affecting trace gas seasonality in
the {T}ropical {T}ropopause {L}ayer ({TTL})},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
volume = {117},
issn = {0148-0227},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-17546},
pages = {D09303},
year = {2012},
note = {We thank M. Volk and Bill Randel for helpful discussions
and the ECMWF for providing the reanalysis data. F. Ploeger
thanks COST for funding a Short Term Scientific Mission at
DAMTP/Cambridge.},
abstract = {We analyze horizontal transport from midlatitudes into the
tropics (in-mixing) and its impact on seasonal variations of
ozone, carbon monoxide and water vapor in the Tropical
Tropopause Layer (TTL). For this purpose, we use
three-dimensional backward trajectories, driven by ECMWF
ERA-Interim winds, and a conceptual one-dimensional model of
the chemical composition of the TTL. We find that the
fraction of in-mixed midlatitude air shows an annual cycle
with maximum during NH summer, resulting from the
superposition of two inversely phased annual cycles for
in-mixing from the NH and SH, respectively. In-mixing is
driven by the monsoonal upper-level anticyclonic
circulations. This circulation pattern is dominated by the
Southeast Asian summer monsoon and, correspondingly,
in-mixing shows an annual cycle. The impact of in-mixing on
TTL mixing ratios depends on the in-mixed fraction of
midlatitude air and on the meridional gradient of the
particular species. For CO the meridional gradient and
consequently the effect of in-mixing is weak. For water
vapor, in-mixing effects are negligible. For ozone, the
meridional gradient is large and the contribution of
in-mixing to the ozone maximum during NH summer is about
$50\%.$ This in-mixing contribution is not sensitive to the
tropical ascent velocity, which is about $40\%$ too fast in
ERA-Interim. As photochemically produced ozone in the TTL
shows no distinct summer maximum, the ozone annual anomaly
in the upper TTL turns out to be mainly forced by in-mixing
of ozone-rich extratropical air during NH summer.},
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:000304008600005},
doi = {10.1029/2011JD017267},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/17546},
}