First detection of a brief mesoscale elevated stratopause in very early winter

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: García Comas, Maia, Funke, Bernd, López-Puertas, Manuel, González-Galindo, F., Hoepfner, M.
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Merra; Midwinter
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/205312; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086751; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780

Elevated stratopauses are typically associated with prolonged disturbed conditions in the Northern Hemisphere polar winter. The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) and the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) observed a short-lived and highly zonally asymmetric stratopause at m...