On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003
International audience During several balloon flights inside the Arctic polar vortex in early 2003, unusual trace gas distributions were observed, which indicate a strong influence of mesospheric air in the stratosphere. The tuneable diode laser (TDL) instrument SPIRALE (Spectroscopie InFrarouge par...
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ftunivorleans:oai:HAL:hal-00327956v1 2024-09-09T19:25:02+00:00 On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 Engel, A. Möbius, T. Haase, H.-P. Bönisch, H. Wetter, T. Schmidt, U. Levin, I. Reddmann, T. Oelhaf, H. Wetzel, G. Grunow, K. Huret, Nathalie Pirre, Michel Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt Frankfurt/Main (IAU) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Institut für Umweltphysik Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg = Heidelberg University Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology = Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Meteorologie Berlin Freie Universität Berlin Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement (LPCE) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2005-08-26 https://hal.science/hal-00327956 https://hal.science/hal-00327956/document https://hal.science/hal-00327956/file/acpd-5-7457-2005.pdf en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union hal-00327956 https://hal.science/hal-00327956 https://hal.science/hal-00327956/document https://hal.science/hal-00327956/file/acpd-5-7457-2005.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7367 EISSN: 1680-7375 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions https://hal.science/hal-00327956 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2005, 5 (4), pp.7457-7496 [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2005 ftunivorleans 2024-06-24T23:59:06Z International audience During several balloon flights inside the Arctic polar vortex in early 2003, unusual trace gas distributions were observed, which indicate a strong influence of mesospheric air in the stratosphere. The tuneable diode laser (TDL) instrument SPIRALE (Spectroscopie InFrarouge par Absorption de Lasers Embarqués) measured unusually high CO values (up to 600 ppb) on 27 January at about 30 km altitude. The cryosampler BONBON sampled air masses with very high molecular Hydrogen, extremely low SF 6 and enhanced CO values on 6 March at about 25 km altitude. Finally, the MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectrometer showed NO y values which are significantly higher than NO y * (the NO y derived from a correlation between N 2 O and NO y under undisturbed conditions), on 21 and 22 March in a layer centred at 22 km altitude. Thus, the mesospheric air seems to have been present in a layer descending from about 30 km in late January to 25 km altitude in early March and about 22 km altitude on 20 March. We present corroborating evidence from a model study using the KASIMA (KArlsruhe Simulation model of the Middle Atmosphere) model that also shows a layer of mesospheric air, which descended into the stratosphere in November and early December 2002, before the minor warming which occurred in late December 2002 lead to a descent of upper stratospheric air, cutting of a layer in which mesospheric air is present. This layer then descended inside the vortex over the course of the winter. The same feature is found in trajectory calculations, based on a large number of trajectories started in the vicinity of the observations on 6 March. Based on the difference between the mean age derived from SF 6 (which has an irreversible mesospheric loss) and from CO 2 (whose mesospheric loss is much smaller and reversible) we estimate that the fraction of mesospheric air in the layer observed on 6 March, must have been somewhere between 35% and 100%. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Université d'Orléans: HAL Arctic |
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[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere Engel, A. Möbius, T. Haase, H.-P. Bönisch, H. Wetter, T. Schmidt, U. Levin, I. Reddmann, T. Oelhaf, H. Wetzel, G. Grunow, K. Huret, Nathalie Pirre, Michel On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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International audience During several balloon flights inside the Arctic polar vortex in early 2003, unusual trace gas distributions were observed, which indicate a strong influence of mesospheric air in the stratosphere. The tuneable diode laser (TDL) instrument SPIRALE (Spectroscopie InFrarouge par Absorption de Lasers Embarqués) measured unusually high CO values (up to 600 ppb) on 27 January at about 30 km altitude. The cryosampler BONBON sampled air masses with very high molecular Hydrogen, extremely low SF 6 and enhanced CO values on 6 March at about 25 km altitude. Finally, the MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectrometer showed NO y values which are significantly higher than NO y * (the NO y derived from a correlation between N 2 O and NO y under undisturbed conditions), on 21 and 22 March in a layer centred at 22 km altitude. Thus, the mesospheric air seems to have been present in a layer descending from about 30 km in late January to 25 km altitude in early March and about 22 km altitude on 20 March. We present corroborating evidence from a model study using the KASIMA (KArlsruhe Simulation model of the Middle Atmosphere) model that also shows a layer of mesospheric air, which descended into the stratosphere in November and early December 2002, before the minor warming which occurred in late December 2002 lead to a descent of upper stratospheric air, cutting of a layer in which mesospheric air is present. This layer then descended inside the vortex over the course of the winter. The same feature is found in trajectory calculations, based on a large number of trajectories started in the vicinity of the observations on 6 March. Based on the difference between the mean age derived from SF 6 (which has an irreversible mesospheric loss) and from CO 2 (whose mesospheric loss is much smaller and reversible) we estimate that the fraction of mesospheric air in the layer observed on 6 March, must have been somewhere between 35% and 100%. |
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Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt Frankfurt/Main (IAU) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Institut für Umweltphysik Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg = Heidelberg University Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology = Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Meteorologie Berlin Freie Universität Berlin Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement (LPCE) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Engel, A. Möbius, T. Haase, H.-P. Bönisch, H. Wetter, T. Schmidt, U. Levin, I. Reddmann, T. Oelhaf, H. Wetzel, G. Grunow, K. Huret, Nathalie Pirre, Michel |
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On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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On the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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on the observation of mesospheric air inside the arctic stratospheric polar vortex in early 2003 |
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ISSN: 1680-7367 EISSN: 1680-7375 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions https://hal.science/hal-00327956 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2005, 5 (4), pp.7457-7496 |
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