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@ARTICLE{Schiller:7885,
author = {Schiller, C. and Grooß, J.-U. and Konopka, P. and Plöger,
F. and Silva dos Santos, F.H. and Spelten, N.},
title = {{H}ydration and dehydration at the tropical tropopause},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {9},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-7885},
pages = {9647 - 9660},
year = {2009},
note = {Discussion of the results and developing ideas of their
meaning with many members of the project teams of SCOUT-O3,
TroCCiNOx and AMMA/SCOUT-O3 is gratefully acknowledged. We
thank MDB, DLR and ERS-Ltd operating and managing the
aircraft under the challenging tropical conditions. The
study was primarily conducted under the SCOUT-O3 Integrated
Project (EC Contract GOCE-CT-2004-505390), with additional
campaign funding by the EC projects TroCCiNOx and AMMA as
well as by INSU and the Geophysica EEIG.},
abstract = {High-resolution water measurements from three tropical
airborne missions in Northern Australia, Southern Brazil and
West Africa in different seasons are analysed to study the
transport and transformation of water in the tropical
tropopause layer (TTL) and its impact on the stratosphere.
The mean profiles are quite different according to the
season and location of the campaigns, with lowest mixing
ratios below 2 ppmv at the cold point tropopause during the
Australian mission in November/December and high TTL mixing
ratios during the African measurements in August. We present
backward trajectory calculations considering freeze-drying
of the air to the minimum saturation mixing ratio and
initialised with climatological satellite data. This
trajectory-based reconstruction of water agrees well with
the observed H2O average profiles and therefore demonstrates
that the water vapour set point in the TTL is primarily
determined by the Lagrangian saturation history. Deep
convection was found to moisten the TTL, in several events
even above the cold point up to 420 K potential
temperatures. However, our study does not provide evidence
for a larger impact of these highly-localised events on
global scales.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-1},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB790},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000273060200020},
doi = {10.5194/acp-9-9647-2009},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/7885},
}