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Tropopause fold occurrence rates over the Antarctic station Troll (72 degrees S, 2.5 degrees E)
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering.
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Space Technology.
2013 (English)In: Annales Geophysicae, ISSN 0992-7689, E-ISSN 1432-0576, Vol. 31, no 4, p. 591-598Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

One of the important mechanisms of stratosphere-troposphere exchange, which brings ozone-rich stratospheric air to low altitudes in extratropical regions, is transport related to tropopause folds. The climatology of folds has been studied at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere with the help of radars and global models. Global models supply information about fold occurrence rates at high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere as well, but so far comparisons with direct measurements are rare. The Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica (MARA), a 54.5 MHz wind-profiler radar, has been operated at the Norwegian year-round station Troll, Antarctica (72 degrees S, 2.5 degrees E) since December 2011. Frequent tropopause fold signatures have been observed. In this study, based on MARA observations, an occurrence rate statistics of tropopause folds from December 2011 until November 2012 has been made, and radar data have been compared with the analysis from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF). The fold occurrence rates exhibit an annual cycle with winter maximum and summer minimum and suggest significantly higher occurrence rates for the given location than those obtained previously by global model studies.

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2013. Vol. 31, no 4, p. 591-598
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Space Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-4904DOI: 10.5194/angeo-31-591-2013ISI: 000318432600002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84882737434Local ID: 2e6fd34f-d348-425b-9ba2-e782cfde1a74OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-4904DiVA, id: diva2:977778
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Validerad; 2013; 20130611 (ysko)Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2018-07-10Bibliographically approved

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