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Contribution of mixing to the upward transport across the TTL

  • 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.

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Author:Paul Konopka, Gebhard GüntherORCiDGND, Rolf MüllerORCiD, Fábio Henrique Silva dos Santos, Cornelius SchillerGND, Fabrizio RavegnaniORCiD, Alexey Ulanovsky, Hans Schlager, C.-Michael Volk, Silvia Viciani, Laura L. Pan, Daniel-S. McKenna, Martin RieseORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-292685
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-6-12217-2006
ISSN:1680-7367
ISSN:1680-7375
Parent Title (English):Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions
Publisher:European Geosciences Union
Place of publication:Katlenburg-Lindau
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2006/11/28
Date of first Publication:2006/11/28
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/03/22
Volume:6
Page Number:50
First Page:12217
Last Page:12266
Note:
© Author(s) 2006. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
HeBIS-PPN:210581913
Institutes:Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0