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@PHDTHESIS{Charlesworth:906357,
author = {Charlesworth, Edward Joseph},
title = {{M}odeling and {D}iagnosis of the {S}tratospheric
{C}irculation},
volume = {563},
school = {Universität Wuppertal},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2022-01386},
isbn = {978-3-95806-605-2},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Energie
$\&$ Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {v, 103, A2 S.},
year = {2021},
note = {Universität Wuppertal, Diss., 2021},
abstract = {The transport of chemical species in the stratosphere has
major impacts on a variety of ecologically-relevant
phenomena. Ozone distributions, for example, reduce incoming
ultraviolet solar radiation and thereby increase the
viability of life on thesurface of the Earth, whereas water
distributions are known to have impacts on the surface
radiative balance. These (and other) chemical distributions
are often interrelated, such as how water vapor provides the
primary source of ozone-destroying hydrogen species in the
stratosphere, whereas ozone and water vapor concentrations
both play roles in the tropical tropopause radiative balance
and thereby affect incoming water vapor mixing ratios. This
complexity of interaction presents a challenge in the
understanding and modeling of the stratosphere and the
transport of chemicals within it. This dissertation presents
work which is aimed towards improving both the understanding
and modeling of stratospheric transport and is presented in
three parts. In the first part, passive tracer transport is
used to assess the time scales of stratospheric transport in
the absence of non-conserving chemical or other loss
processes and in the context of climate model simulations.
More particularly, transport timescale distributions are
compared between two transport schemes – one Eulerian and
the other Lagrangian – which are driven by the same model
simulation. The results of this work show that the two
transport schemes produce very different transport
timescales around many key features of the stratosphere. The
Lagrangian model shows slower transport in most of the
stratosphere and shows evidence which suggests that it
should produce stronger gradients in tracers, in comparison
to the Eulerian model, in many locations where strong
gradients are expected from observations for a variety of
chemical species. In the second part, the modeling
experiments from the first part are extended to include
water vapor transport. The results of this work show that
the Lagrangian model transports much less water vapor into
the stratosphere than the Eulerian transport model,
particularly in the extratropical lowermost stratosphere.
This region shows differences of a factor of two or more (up
to five), which raises significant questions about the
reliability of current model representations of water vapor
in the upper-troposphere lower-stratosphere region and the
radiative effects thereof. Furthermore, the water vapor
distributions of both transport models were used to drive
radiation calculations in two different simulations, for
which differences of up to 10 Kelvin in the extratropical
lowermost stratosphere were found. [...]},
cin = {IEK-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {2112 - Climate Feedbacks (POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2112},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:0001-2022040516},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/906357},
}