% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Rolf:850239, author = {Rolf, Christian and Vogel, Bärbel and Hoor, P. and Afchine, Armin and Günther, Gebhard and Krämer, Martina and Müller, Rolf and Müller, S. and Spelten, Nicole and Riese, Martin}, title = {{W}ater vapor increase in the lower stratosphere of the {N}orthern {H}emisphere due to the {A}sian monsoon anticyclone observed during the {TACTS}/{ESMV}al campaigns}, journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics}, volume = {18}, number = {4}, issn = {1680-7316}, address = {Katlenburg-Lindau}, publisher = {EGU}, reportid = {FZJ-2018-04294}, pages = {2973-2983}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The impact of air masses originating in Asia and influenced by the Asian monsoon anticyclone on the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere is investigated based on in situ measurements. A statistically significant increase in water vapor (H2O) of about 0.5ppmv $(11\%)$ and methane (CH4) of up to 20ppbv $(1.2\%)$ in the extratropical stratosphere above a potential temperature of 380K was detected between August and September 2012 during the HALO aircraft missions Transport and Composition in the UT/LMS (TACTS) and Earth System Model Validation (ESMVal). We investigate the origin of the increased water vapor and methane using the three-dimensional Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS). We assign the source of the moist air masses in the Asian region (northern and southern India, eastern China, southeast Asia, and the tropical Pacific) based on tracers of air mass origin used in CLaMS. The water vapor increase is correlated with an increase of the simulated Asian monsoon air mass contribution from about $10\%$ in August to about $20\%$ in September, which corresponds to a doubling of the influence from the Asian monsoon region. Additionally, back trajectories starting at the aircraft flight paths are used to differentiate transport from the Asian monsoon anticyclone and other source regions by calculating the Lagrangian cold point (LCP). The geographic location of the LCPs, which indicates the region where the set point of water vapor mixing ratio along these trajectories occurs, can be predominantly attributed to the Asian monsoon region.}, 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) / STRATOCLIM - Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better climate predictions (603557)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244 / G:(EU-Grant)603557}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000426556500004}, doi = {10.5194/acp-18-2973-2018}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/850239}, }