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@ARTICLE{Esler:28517,
author = {Esler, J. G. and Haynes, P. H. and Law, K. S. and Barjat,
H. and Dewey, K. and Kent, J. and Schmitgen, S. and Brough,
N.},
title = {{T}ransport and mixing between airmasses in cold frontal
regions during {D}ynamics and {C}hemistry of {F}rontal
{Z}ones ({DCFZ})},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
volume = {108},
issn = {0148-0227},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-28517},
pages = {D4},
year = {2003},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {[1] The passage of two cold front systems over the United
Kingdom are compared and contrasted, using the results of a
detailed aircraft and ground-based study. The measurements
are interpreted by means of three-dimensional,
reverse-domain-filling trajectories using both global models
and limited-area mesoscale models. This method provides a
three-dimensional picture of the interleaving air-masses in
the frontal zone as defined by their Lagrangian histories.
The two systems studied differ in that the first is
associated with an intense surface low in January and the
second is associated with a relatively weak surface low in
April. In the intense surface low case the trajectory study
suggests that a dry intrusion with stratospheric
characteristics penetrated deep into the troposphere along
the upper level front. Measurements indeed revealed an
unsaturated layer with anomalously high ozone. This layer
was intersected at four levels in the troposphere (at 8.5,
7.1, 5.2 and 3.7 km), and the lower the intersection, the
lower the measured anomalous ozone and the higher the water
vapor content. It is argued that this is best explained by
the dry-intrusion layer becoming mixed with background air
by three-dimensional turbulence, also encountered by the
aircraft, along the upper level front. Evidence for this
mixing is apparent on tracer-tracer scatterplots. In the
weak surface low case, by contrast, the dry intrusion has a
more complex structure, with up to three separate layers of
enhanced ozone and low humidity. Strong evidence for mixing
was apparent only in the lowest layer. The weaker system may
therefore be much more efficient at transporting upper
tropospheric/stratospheric ozone to the lower troposphere.
The transport of boundary layer air to the upper troposphere
in the warm conveyor belt (WCB), however, was found to be
around 8 times stronger in the intense system. Sonde
measurements suggested that the WCB was ventilated by
convection from the surface front in some regions to about
5-6 km, while it was stably stratified in other regions,
suggesting layerwise long-range transport.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-II},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB48},
pnm = {Chemie und Dynamik der Geo-Biosphäre},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK257},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000182068900001},
doi = {10.1029/2001JD001494},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/28517},
}