Dehydration of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere by subvisible cirrus clouds near the tropical tropopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 825-828

  Jensen, Eric J ^a,b   Toon, Owen B ^b   Pfister, Leonard ^b   Selkirk, Henry B ^b,c  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Space Physics Research Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; COLD TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; DEHYDRATION; FREEZE DRYING AIR; ICE CLOUD MODELLING; STRATIFORM CIRRUS; STRATOSPHERE DRYNESS;

DEHYDRATION; ICE; TROPICS; CLOUDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

CRYSTAL SEDIMENTATION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; LARGE SCALE MOTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

CLOUDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ICE CLOUD MODEL; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; SUBVISIBLE CIRRUS CLOUDS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0029669151     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00722     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Brewer, A. W., Evidence for a world circulation provided by the measurements of helium and water vapor distribution in the stratosphere, Quart. J. R. Met. Soc, 75, 351, 1949.
2. Danielsen, E. F., In situ evidence of rapid, vertical, irreversible transport of lower tropospheric air into the lower tropical stratosphere by convective cloud turrets and by larger-scale upwelling in tropical cyclones, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8665, 1993.
3. Harris-Hobbs, R., D. Rusk, M. Bradford, and D.R. Booker, HAT cirrus notes and observations, submitted to U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, 1990.
4. Holton, J. R., P. H. Haynes, M. E. McIntyre, A. R. Douglass, R. B. Rood, and L. Pfister, Stratosphere-troposphere exchange, Reviews of Geophysics, 33, 403, 1995.
5. Jensen, E. J., O. B. Toon, D. L. Westphal, S. Kinne, and A. J. Heymsfield, Microphysical modeling of cirrus part I: Comparison with 1986 FIRE IFO measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 10421, 1994.
6. Jensen, E. J., O. B. Toon, D. Spinhirne, H. B. Selkirk, On the formation and persistence of subvisible cirrus clouds near the tropical tropopause, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 1996.
7. Jensen, E. J., and O. B. Toon, Ice nucleation in the upper troposphere: Sensitivity to aerosol number density, temperature, and cooling rate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2019, 1994.
8. Pfister, L., K. R. Chan, T. P. Bui, S. Bowen, M. Legg, B. Gary, K. Kelly, M. Proffitt, and W. Starr, Gravity waves generated by a tropical cyclone during the STEP tropical field program: A case study, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8611, 1993.
9. Potter, B. and J. R. Holton, The role of monsoon convection in the dehydration of the lower tropical stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 1034, 1995.
10. Prabhakara, C., R. S. Fraser, G. Dalu, Man-Li C. Wu, and R. J. Curran, Thin cirrus clouds: Seasonal distribution over oceans deduced from Nimbus-4 IRIS, J. App. Met., 27, 379, 1988.
11. Robinson, G. D., The transport of minor atmospheric constituents between the troposphere and stratosphere, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 106, 227, 1980.
12. Russell, P. B., L. Pfister, and H. B. Selkirk, The tropical experiment of the Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Project (STEP): Science objectives, operations, and summary findings, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8563, 1993.
13. Selkirk, H. B., The tropopause cold trap in the Australian monsoon during STEP/AMEX 1987, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8591, 1993.
14. Tsuda, T., Y. Murayama, H. Wiryosumarto, S. Woro, B. Harijono, and S. Kato, Radiosonde observations of equatorial atmosphere dynamics over Indonesia, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 10491, 1994.
15. Wang, P.-H., M. P. McCormick, L. R. Poole, P. Minnis, G. S. Kent, and G. K. Yue, Extinction (1-μm) properties of high-altitude clouds from solar occultation measurements (1985-1990): Evidence of volcanic aerosol effect, in preparation, 1996.