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@ARTICLE{Krause:841715,
author = {Krause, Jens and Hoor, Peter and Engel, Andreas and
Ploeger, Felix and Grooß, Jens-Uwe and Bönisch, Harald and
Keber, Timo and Sinnhuber, Björn-Martin and Woiwode,
Wolfgang and Oelhaf, Hermann},
title = {{M}ixing and ageing in the polar lower stratosphere in
winter 2015/2016},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions},
volume = {955},
issn = {1680-7367},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-00023},
pages = {1 - 32},
year = {2017},
abstract = {We present data from winter 2015/2016, which were measured
during the POLSTRACC (The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing
Climate) aircraft campaign between December 2015 and March
2016. The focus of this work is on the role of transport and
mixing between aged and potentially chemically processed air
masses from the stratosphere with mid and low latitude air
mass fractions with small transit times originating at the
tropical lower stratosphere. By combining measurements of
CO, N2O and SF6 we estimate the evolution of the relative
contributions of transport and mixing to the UTLS
composition over the course of the winter.We find an
increasing influence of aged stratospheric air partly from
the vortex as indicated by decreasing N2O and SF6 values
over the course of winter. Surprisingly we also found a mean
increase of CO by (3.00 ± 1.64) ppbV from January to
March relative to N2O in the lower stratosphere. We show
that this increase of CO is consistent with an increased
mixing of tropospheric air as part of the fast transport
mechanism in the lower stratosphere surf zone. The analysed
air masses were partly affected by air masses which
originated at the tropical tropopause and were
quasi-horizontally mixed into higher latitudes.This increase
of the tropospheric air fraction partly compensates for
ageing of the UTLS due to the diabatic descent of air masses
from the vortex by horizontally mixed, tropospheric
influenced air masses. This is consistent with simulated age
spectra from the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the
Stratosphere (CLaMS), which show a respective fractional
increase of tropospheric air with short transit times lower
than six months and a simultaneous increase of aged air from
deep stratospheric and vortex regions with transit times
larger than two years.We thus conclude that the lowermost
stratosphere in winter 2015/16 was affected by aged air from
the deep stratosphere and vortex region. These air masses
were significantly affected by increased mixing from the
lower latitudes, which led to a simultaneous increase of the
fraction of young air in the Arctic lowermost stratosphere
over the course of winter.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.5194/acp-2017-955},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/841715},
}