Stratosphere–troposphere exchange (STE) in the vicinity  of  North Atlantic cyclones

Reutter, P.; Škerlak, B.; Sprenger, M.; Wernli, H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10939-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10939-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10939-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

Research article

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02 Oct 2015

Research article |

| 02 Oct 2015

Stratosphere–troposphere exchange (STE) in the vicinity of North Atlantic cyclones

P. Reutter, B. Škerlak, M. Sprenger, and H. Wernli

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Final revised paper (published on 02 Oct 2015)
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RC C942: 'Review of "Stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) in the vicinity of North Atlantic cyclones"', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Mar 2015
- AC C1926: 'please see author comment AC C1924 for more details', Philipp Reutter, 27 Apr 2015
RC C1155: 'Review of Stratospehre-Troposphere exchange (STE) in the vicinity of North Atlantic cyclones', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Mar 2015
- AC C1927: 'please see author comment AC C1924 for more details', Philipp Reutter, 27 Apr 2015
AC C1924: 'Extension of cyclone region to include 3D cyclone structure', Philipp Reutter, 27 Apr 2015
AC C5525: 'Replies to both Referees and revised manuscript with Track Changes', Philipp Reutter, 01 Aug 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Philipp Reutter on behalf of the Authors (01 Aug 2015)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Aug 2015) by Geraint Vaughan

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Aug 2015)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Sep 2015)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Sep 2015) by Geraint Vaughan

AR by Philipp Reutter on behalf of the Authors (15 Sep 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this manuscript, we investigate the exchange of air masses across the dynamical tropopause (stratosphere-troposphere exchange, STE) in the vicinity of North Atlantic cyclones. By using two 6-hourly resolved ERA-Interim climatologies of STE and cyclones from 1979 to 2011, we are able to directly compute the amount of STE in the vicinity of every individual cyclone in this time period. This enables us to provide a robust and consistent quantification of STE near North Atlantic cyclones.