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@ARTICLE{Gnther:23756,
author = {Günther, G. and McKenna, D. S. and Spang, R.},
title = {{T}he meteorological conditions of the stratosphere for the
{CRISTA}2 campaign ({A}ugust 1997)},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
volume = {107},
issn = {0148-0227},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-23756},
year = {2002},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {[1] During the CRISTA 2 campaign in August 1997 the
Antarctic polar vortex according to UK Met Office (UKMO)
data was strong but temporarily disturbed by planetary
waves. This winter was in general warmer than the five
previous winters; nevertheless, temperatures cold enough to
allow the formation of nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) and ice
particles occurred throughout the period from mid-June to
the end of August. The cold vortex core developed in the
potential temperature range from 400 to 700 K at the
beginning of the winter, initially centered at 600 K but
slowly progressing downward to 450 K in the subsequent
months. The vortex disturbances showed a clear zonal wave
number 1 and 2 pattern. This planetary wave activity caused
a strong day-to-day fluctuation of the vortex shape. During
August when the second Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and
Telescopes for the Atmosphere (CRISTA 2) mission took place
the vortex was elongated toward the southern Atlantic Ocean,
processing slowly eastward. The perturbation of the vortex
was associated with air masses transported from middle and
low latitudes into the polar region in small-scale
streamers. Similarly, tongues of vortex air peeled off the
vortex edge and moved equatorward, enhancing the exchange
between polar regions and the tropics. In addition, the
disturbance of the vortex led to the generation of filaments
at the inner side of the vortex edge, thus covering the
vortex interior with small-scale structures. A comparison
between CRISTA observations and potential vorticity derived
from UKMO data shows discrepancies concerning small-scale
structures. High-resolution potential vorticity fields
calculated from reverse domain filling trajectory
simulations on isentropic surfaces based on horizontal winds
from UKMO analyses and vertical motion from diabatic
calculations are much more consistent with the measurements.
Both observation and reverse domain filling (RDF)
simulations show the strong atmospheric variability of this
period of unusual enhanced planetary wave activity in the
Southern Hemisphere.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-I},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB47},
pnm = {Chemie und Dynamik der Geo-Biosphäre},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK257},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000180490000012},
doi = {10.1029/2001JD000692},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/23756},
}