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@ARTICLE{Rohs:50145,
author = {Rohs, S. and Schiller, C. and Riese, M. and Engel, A. and
Schmidt, U. and Wetter, T. and Levin, I. and Nakazawa, T.
and Aoki, S.},
title = {{L}ong-term changes of methane and hydrogen in the
stratosphere in the period 1978-2003 and their impact on the
abundance of stratospheric water vapor},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
volume = {111},
issn = {0148-0227},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Union},
reportid = {PreJuSER-50145},
pages = {D14},
year = {2006},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {The long-term changes of the stratospheric mixing ratio of
CH4 over the period of 1978-2003 are derived from
balloon-borne data of H-2, CH4 and N2O. The data were
obtained by collecting whole air samples and subsequent gas
chromatographic analyses. To eliminate the short-term
variability attributed to dynamical processes, the N2O
mixing ratio is used as a proxy for altitude. A correlation
analysis for the individual years is applied and the CH4
mixing ratios are interpolated to four different levels of
N2O, corresponding to altitudes of approximately 17, 23, 26
and 30 km at midlatitudes. For the investigated period of
1978 to 2003 we find increases at the four levels of 207 +/-
32 ppb, 159 +/- 21 ppb, 140 +/- 34 ppb and 111 +/- 60 ppb,
respectively. The CH4 trend has slowed down in recent years
and is best fitted by a second-order polynomial. The
increase of CH4 can account for only $25-34\%$ of the
increase in stratospheric H2O of $1\%/yr$ over the last
decades as derived from previous studies. The simultaneously
measured time series of stratospheric H-2 mixing ratios
shows that the contribution of stratospheric H-2 to the H2O
trend in the period 1988-2003 is minor.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-I},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB47},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000239490100003},
doi = {10.1029/2005JD006877},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/50145},
}