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@ARTICLE{Kunz:185612,
author = {Kunz, A. and Spelten, N. and Konopka, P. and Müller, Rolf
and Forbes, R. M. and Wernli, H.},
title = {{C}omparison of {F}ast {I}n situ {S}tratospheric
{H}ygrometer ({FISH}) measurements of water vapor in the
upper troposphere and lower stratosphere ({UTLS}) with
{ECMWF} (re)analysis data},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {14},
number = {19},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-07038},
pages = {10803 - 10822},
year = {2014},
abstract = {An evaluation of water vapor in the upper troposphere and
lower stratosphere (UTLS) of the ERA-Interim, the global
atmospheric reanalysis produced by the European Centre for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), is presented. Water
vapor measurements are derived from the Fast In situ
Stratospheric Hygrometer (FISH) during a large set of
airborne measurement campaigns from 2001 to 2011 in the
tropics, midlatitudes and polar regions, covering isentropic
layers from 300 to 400K (5–18km).The comparison shows
around $87\%$ of the reanalysis data are within a factor of
2 of the FISH water vapor measurements and around $30\%$
have a nearly perfect agreement with an over- and
underestimation lower than $10\%.$ Nevertheless, strong
over- and underestimations can occur both in the UT and LS,
in particularly in the extratropical LS and in the tropical
UT, where severe over- and underestimations up to 10 times
can occur.The analysis data from the evolving ECMWF
operational system is also evaluated, and the FISH
measurements are divided into time periods representing
different cycles of the Integrated Forecast System (IFS).
The agreement with FISH improves over the time, in
particular when comparing water vapor fields for time
periods before 2004 and after 2010. It appears that
influences of tropical tropospheric and extratropical UTLS
processes, e.g., convective and quasi-isentropic exchange
processes, are particularly challenging for the simulation
of the UTLS water vapor distribution. Both the reanalysis
and operational analysis data show the tendency of an
overestimation of low water vapor mixing ratio (⪅10ppmv)
in the LS and underestimation of high water vapor mixing
ratio (⪆300ppmv) in the UT.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {234 - Composition and Dynamics of the Upper Troposphere and
Stratosphere (POF2-234)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-234},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000344164800026},
doi = {10.5194/acp-14-10803-2014},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/185612},
}