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@ARTICLE{Poshyvailo:858099,
author = {Poshyvailo, Liubov and Müller, Rolf and Konopka, Paul and
Günther, Gebhard and Riese, Martin and Podglajen, Aurelien
and Ploeger, Felix},
title = {{S}ensitivities of modelled water vapour in the lower
stratosphere: temperature uncertainty, effects of horizontal
transport and small-scale mixing},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-07017},
pages = {8505 - 8527},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Water vapour (H2O) in the upper troposphere and lower
stratosphere (UTLS) has a significant role for global
radiation. A realistic representation of H2O is therefore
critical for accurate climate model predictions of future
climate change. In this paper we investigate the effects of
current uncertainties in tropopause temperature, horizontal
transport and small-scale mixing on simulated H2O in the
lower stratosphere (LS).To assess the sensitivities of
simulated H2O, we use the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the
Stratosphere (CLaMS). First, we examine CLaMS, which is
driven by two reanalyses, from the European Centre of
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA-Interim and the
Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55), to investigate the
robustness with respect to the meteorological dataset.
Second, we carry out CLaMS simulations with transport
barriers along latitude circles (at the Equator, 15 and
35°N/S) to assess the effects of horizontal transport.
Third, we vary the strength of parametrized small-scale
mixing in CLaMS.Our results show significant differences
(about 0.5ppmv) in simulated stratospheric H2O due to
uncertainties in the tropical tropopause temperatures
between the two reanalysis datasets, JRA-55 and ERA-Interim.
The JRA-55 based simulation is significantly moister when
compared to ERA-Interim, due to a warmer tropical tropopause
(approximately 2K). The transport barrier experiments
demonstrate that the Northern Hemisphere (NH) subtropics
have a strong moistening effect on global stratospheric H2O.
The comparison of tropical entry H2O from the sensitivity
15°N/S barrier simulation and the reference case shows
differences of up to around 1ppmv. Interhemispheric exchange
shows only a very weak effect on stratospheric H2O.
Small-scale mixing mainly increases
troposphere–stratosphere exchange, causing an enhancement
of stratospheric H2O, particularly along the subtropical
jets in the summer hemisphere and in the NH monsoon regions.
In particular, the Asian and American monsoon systems during
a boreal summer appear to be regions especially sensitive to
changes in small-scale mixing, which appears crucial for
controlling the moisture anomalies in the monsoon UTLS. For
the sensitivity simulation with varied mixing strength,
differences in tropical entry H2O between the weak and
strong mixing cases amount to about 1ppmv, with small-scale
mixing enhancing H2O in the LS.The sensitivity studies
presented here provide new insights into the leading
processes that control stratospheric H2O, which are
important for assessing and improving climate model
projections.},
cin = {IEK-7 / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013 / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244) / Chemisches Lagrangesches
Modell der Stratosphäre (CLaMS) $(jicg11_20090701)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244 / $G:(DE-Juel1)jicg11_20090701$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000435484300003},
doi = {10.5194/acp-18-8505-2018},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/858099},
}