TY  - JOUR
A1  - Konopka, Paul
A1  - Günther, Gebhard
A1  - Müller, Rolf
A1  - Santos, Fábio Henrique Silva dos
A1  - Schiller, Cornelius
A1  - Ravegnani, Fabrizio
A1  - Ulanovsky, Alexey
A1  - Schlager, Hans
A1  - Volk, C.-Michael
A1  - Viciani, Silvia
A1  - Pan, Laura L.
A1  - McKenna, Daniel-S.
A1  - Riese, Martin
T1  - Contribution of mixing to the upward transport across the TTL
T2  - Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions
N2  - During the second part of the TROCCINOX campaign that took place in Brazil in early 2005, chemical species were measured on-board of the high altitude research aircraft Geophysica (ozone, water vapor, NO, NOy, CH4 and CO) in the altitude range up to 20 km (or up to 450 K potential temperature), i.e. spanning the TTL region roughly extending between 350 and 420 K.
Analysis of transport across TTL is performed using a new version of the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS). In this new version, the stratospheric model has been extended to the earth surface. Above the tropopause, the isentropic and cross-isentropic advection in CLaMS is driven by ECMWF winds and heating/cooling rates derived from a radiation calculation. Below the tropopause the model smoothly transforms from the isentropic to hybrid-pressure coordinate and, in this way, takes into account the effect of large-scale convective transport as implemented in the ECMWF vertical wind. As with other CLaMS simulations, the irreversible transport, i.e. mixing, is controlled by the local horizontal strain and vertical shear rates.
Stratospheric and tropospheric signatures in the TTL can be seen both in the observation and in the model. The composition of air above ≈350 K is mainly controlled by mixing on a time scale of weeks or even months. Based on CLaMS transport studies where mixing can be completely switched off, we deduce that vertical mixing, mainly driven by the vertical shear in the outflow regions of the large-scale convection and in the vicinity of the subtropical jets, is necessary to understand the upward transport of the tropospheric air from the main convective outflow around 350 K up to the tropical tropopause around 380 K. This mechanism is most effective if the outflow of the mesoscale convective systems interacts with the subtropical jets.
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/29268
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-292685
SN  - 1680-7367
SN  - 1680-7375
N1  - © Author(s) 2006. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
VL  - 6
SP  - 12217
EP  - 12266
PB  - European Geosciences Union
CY  - Katlenburg-Lindau
ER  -