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| Conference Presentation (Other) | FZJ-2021-00856 |
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2020
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8992
Abstract: <p>The vertical distribution and seasonal variation of water vapour volume mixing ratio (H<sub>2</sub>O VMR), relative humidity with respect to ice (RH<sub>ice</sub>) and particularly of regions with ice-supersaturated air masses (ISSR) in the extratropical upper troposphere and lowermost stratosphere are investigated at northern mid-latitudes over the regions Eastern North America, the North Atlantic and Europe for the period 1995 to 2010.</p><p>Observation data originate from regular and continuous long-term measurements of H<sub>2</sub>O VMR, temperature and RH<sub>ice</sub> by instrumented passenger aircraft in the framework of the European research program MOZAIC which is continued as European research infrastructure IAGOS (from 2011; see www.iagos.org). The observation data are analysed with respect to the thermal and dynamical tropopauses, as provided by ERA-Interim. Additionally, collocated O<sub>3</sub> observations from MOZAIC are used as tracer for stratospheric air masses.</p><p>Our key results provide in-depth insight into seasonal and regional variability and tropospheric nature of ice-supersaturated air masses at various distances from the tropopause layer. For the vertical distribution and seasonal variation of ISSR occurrence we show a comparison of our results to radio soundings and to satellite observations of cirrus cloud occurrence from AIRS and TOVs Path B instruments. Finally, for all three regions, we investigate the trends and the dependencies of ISSR occurrence on the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index.</p>
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