stt and tropopause changes from radar windprofilers and ozonesondes david w. tarasick

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STT and Tropopause Changes STT and Tropopause Changes from Radar Windprofilers and from Radar Windprofilers and

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David W. TarasickAir Quality Research Division, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Environment

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W.K. Hocking (UWO)T. Carey-Smith (NIWA)


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Radar signal power from the first Montreal campaign. Solid line shows the tropopause height derived from this data.


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Ozonesonde profiles from this campaign. White solid line = radar tropopause. The dashed lines indicate times when the tropopause undergoes rapid ascent.


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FLEXPART modeling seems to show good correspondence with apparent intrusions

Driven by wind fields from the Canadian operational NWP model: GEM v3.2.0. North American regional grid, 0.5° x 0.5°, hourly, 58 levels.


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Almost every ozone intrusion follows a level 2 or 3 (0.3 – 0.4 km/hr) tropopause excursion. Every level 2 or 3 tropopause excursion is associated with an intrusion.

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Successive ozone and water vapor pressure profiles taken four hours apart on 19 August, 2004. Movement can be seen, as peak A moves to peak B.


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Conclusions

Stratospheric intrusions generally preceded by rapid changes in tropopause height

Quite common at midlatitudes (every 2-5 days)

Success of FLEXPART modeling suggests that GEM dynamics are quite good

Radar appears to be a particularly good intrusion detector

May be possible to follow the descent of layers of low humidity

Can we transfer this to Brewer total ozone changes?


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EXTRAS


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Continuing work…

CFCAS project GR-7042, "Impact of Large-Scale Stratospheric Ozone Intrusions on Operational Air Quality Forecast Model Applications” (Bourqui, Moran, McConnell, Jones, He, Osman)

New radars at Egbert, Sudbury, Eureka

Ozone data from Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the NASA Aura satellite

Several more ozonesonde campaigns with coordinated launches

Use of GEM-MACH

Operational GEM-based post-processing package for diagnosis of STE (Bourqui, Neary, Moran)


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Radar signal power from the first Walsingham campaign. Dashed line shows the tropopause height derived from this data.


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Ozonesonde profiles from this campaign..


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Modelling the intrusions With FLEXPART - Written by Andreas Stohl

http://zardoz.nilu.no/~andreas/flextra+flexpart.html

A Lagrangian particle dispersion model

The model domain is filled with (millions of) particles.

Particles initially in the stratosphere are given an ozone concentration calculated using potential vorticity.

Ozone "parcels" are then advected with the model winds.

Wind fields from Canadian forecast model: GEM version 3.2.0

North American regional grid.

0.5 x 0.5 degrees, 58 levels, hourly.

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