Stratospheric water vapour in the vicinity of the Arctic polar vortex

• Main Authors: Maturilli, M., Fierli, Federico, Yushkov, V., Lukyanov, A., Khaykin, Sergey, Hauchecorne, Alain
• Other Authors: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Central Aerological Observatory (CAO), Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet), Service d'aéronomie (SA), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Arctic; Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00330069; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00330069/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00330069/file/angeo-24-1511-2006.pdf

International audience The stratospheric water vapour mixing ratio inside, outside, and at the edge of the polar vortex has been accurately measured by the FLASH-B Lyman-Alpha hygrometer during the LAUTLOS campaign in Sodankylä, Finland, in January and February 2004. The retrieved H 2 O profiles rev...