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@ARTICLE{Fadnavis:904130,
author = {Fadnavis, Suvarna and Sioris, Christopher E. and Wagh,
Neeraj and Chattopadhyay, Rajib and Tao, Mengchu and Chavan,
Prashant and Chakroborty, Tanusri},
title = {{A} rising trend of double tropopauses over {S}outh {A}sia
in a warming environment: {I}mplications for moistening of
the lower stratosphere},
journal = {International journal of climatology},
volume = {41},
number = {S1},
issn = {0196-1748},
address = {Chichester [u.a.]},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-05700},
pages = {-},
year = {2021},
abstract = {The water vapour variation in the upper troposphere and
lower stratosphere (UTLS) is of high significance due to its
impact on global warming. In this article, we present an
association of occurrence frequency of double tropopauses
(DTs) with convective clouds and transport of water vapour
in the UTLS over subtropical South Asia using multiple
multi-decadal datasets (e.g., radiosonde temperature
profiles (1977–2017), Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
(2003–2017), ERA-Interim reanalysis (1979–2017) and
Microwave Limb Sounder (2004–2016). The diagnostic
analysis of temperature, water vapour and potential
vorticity indicates that convective clouds occurring during
DTs enhance water in the altitude layer near the DTs. DTs
are frequent $(~5–55\%)$ over the subtropical South Asia
(25°–30°N) and associated with an enhancement of water
vapour mixing ratios by $~5–40\%$ (0.2–7.5 ppmv) above
the lower tropopause. The radiosonde observations show a
positive trend (~0.27 ± 0.12 to
$0.4 ± 0.2\%/year)$ in the occurrence of DTs during
last 45 years, enhancing the moisture during DT days
(trend 0.04 ± 0.02 to 0.26 ± 0.24 ppmv/decade
above the tropopause). The convective injection of
anomalously high water vapour mixing ratios in DT conditions
and moistening trends in the UTLS may be consequences of
global warming. The increasing trend in the water vapour in
the UTLS may enhance long-wave radiation coming back down to
warm the troposphere and exacerbate the global warming
effect.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {2112 - Climate Feedbacks (POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2112},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000608703300013},
doi = {10.1002/joc.6677},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904130},
}