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Research article
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11 Aug 2016
Research article |
| 11 Aug 2016
Seasonal and inter-annual variability of lower stratospheric age of air spectra
Felix Ploeger
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Energy and Climate Research: Stratosphere (IEK–7),
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Thomas Birner
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, CO, USA
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We investigate the aging of air in the stratosphere caused by transport due to Brewer's circulation, using the Boundary Impulse Evolving Response (BIER) method. The age spectra show multiple peaks caused by the seasonal and inter-annual variations of transport. The modal age is controlled by the residual circulation in the tropics and winter hemisphere extratropics and by mixing in the summer hemisphere. Analysis of the full age spectrum is strongly recommended for model inter-comparisons.
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