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@ARTICLE{vonHobe:890964,
author = {von Hobe, Marc and Ploeger, Felix and Konopka, Paul and
Kloss, Corinna and Ulanowski, Alexey and Yushkov, Vladimir
and Ravegnani, Fabrizio and Volk, C. Michael and Pan, Laura
L. and Honomichl, Shawn B. and Tilmes, Simone and Kinnison,
Douglas E. and Garcia, Rolando R. and Wright, Jonathon S.},
title = {{U}pward transport into and within the {A}sian monsoon
anticyclone as inferred from {S}trato{C}lim trace gas
observations},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {21},
number = {2},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-01280},
pages = {1267 - 1285},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Every year during the Asian summer monsoon season from
about mid-June to early September, a stable anticyclonic
circulation system forms over the Himalayas. This Asian
summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone has been shown to promote
transport of air into the stratosphere from the Asian
troposphere, which contains large amounts of anthropogenic
pollutants. Essential details of Asian monsoon transport,
such as the exact timescales of vertical transport, the role
of convection in cross-tropopause exchange, and the main
location and level of export from the confined anticyclone
to the stratosphere are still not fully resolved. Recent
airborne observations from campaigns near the ASM
anticyclone edge and centre in 2016 and 2017, respectively,
show a steady decrease in carbon monoxide (CO) and increase
in ozone (O3) with height starting from tropospheric values
of around 100 ppb CO and 30–50 ppb O3 at about 365 K
potential temperature. CO mixing ratios reach stratospheric
background values below ∼25 ppb at about 420 K and do
not show a significant vertical gradient at higher levels,
while ozone continues to increase throughout the altitude
range of the aircraft measurements. Nitrous oxide (N2O)
remains at or only marginally below its 2017 tropospheric
mixing ratio of 333 ppb up to about 400 K, which is
above the local tropopause. A decline in N2O mixing ratios
that indicates a significant contribution of stratospheric
air is only visible above this level. Based on our
observations, we draw the following picture of vertical
transport and confinement in the ASM anticyclone: rapid
convective uplift transports air to near 16 km in
altitude, corresponding to potential temperatures up to
about 370 K. Although this main convective outflow layer
extends above the level of zero radiative heating (LZRH),
our observations of CO concentration show little to no
evidence of convection actually penetrating the tropopause.
Rather, further ascent occurs more slowly, consistent with
isentropic vertical velocities of 0.7–1.5 K d−1. For
the key tracers (CO, O3, and N2O) in our study, none of
which are subject to microphysical processes, neither the
lapse rate tropopause (LRT) around 380 K nor the cold
point tropopause (CPT) around 390 K marks a strong
discontinuity in their profiles. Up to about 20 to 35 K
above the LRT, isolation of air inside the ASM anticyclone
prevents significant in-mixing of stratospheric air
(throughout this text, the term in-mixing refers
specifically to mixing processes that introduce
stratospheric air into the predominantly tropospheric inner
anticyclone). The observed changes in CO and O3 likely
result from in situ chemical processing. Above about
420 K, mixing processes become more significant and the
air inside the anticyclone is exported vertically and
horizontally into the surrounding stratosphere.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {211 - Die Atmosphäre im globalen Wandel (POF4-211) /
STRATOCLIM - Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes
for better climate predictions (603557) / DFG project
392169209 - Klimavariabilität in der oberen Troposphäre
und Stratosphäre über Asien und ihre Darstellung in
modernen Re-Analysen},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-211 / G:(EU-Grant)603557 /
G:(GEPRIS)392169209},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000614287500003},
doi = {10.5194/acp-21-1267-2021},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890964},
}