Stratosphere-to-troposphere transport revealed by ground-based lidar and ozonesonde at a midlatitude site

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Kuang, Shi ^a   Newchurch, M J ^a   Burris, John ^b   Wang, Lihua ^a   Knupp, Kevin ^a   Huang, Guanyu ^a  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MIXING; MOLECULES; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALABAMA; ELEVATED OZONE; GROUND BASED; HUNTSVILLE; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; MESOSCALE MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; MIDLATITUDES; MIXING LAYERS; MIXING PROCESS; NORTH AMERICAN; OZONE SONDES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PROFILING RADIOMETERS; TRANSPORT EVENTS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; STRATOSPHERE-TO-TROPOSPHERE TRANSPORTS; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE; TROPOPAUSE FOLD;

OZONE LAYER;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LATITUDE; LIDAR; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MIXING; OZONESONDE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; ADVECTION; CYCLONE; OZONE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TROPOPAUSE; WESTERLY;

ALABAMA; HUNTSVILLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866981624     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017695     Document Type: Article

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