Evidence of horizontal and vertical transport of water in the Southern
Hemisphere tropical tropopause layer (TTL) from high-resolution balloon
observations

Khaykin, Sergey M.; Pommereau, Jean-Pierre; Riviere, Emmanuel D.; Held, Gerhard; Ploeger, Felix; Ghysels, Melanie; Amarouche, Nadir; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Wienhold, Frank G.; Ionov, Dmitry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12273-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12273-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12273-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 18

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29 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 29 Sep 2016

Evidence of horizontal and vertical transport of water in the Southern Hemisphere tropical tropopause layer (TTL) from high-resolution balloon observations

Sergey M. Khaykin, Jean-Pierre Pommereau, Emmanuel D. Riviere, Gerhard Held, Felix Ploeger, Melanie Ghysels, Nadir Amarouche, Jean-Paul Vernier, Frank G. Wienhold, and Dmitry Ionov

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RC1: 'Review of Khaykin et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee#1', Sergey Khaykin, 02 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Aug 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Referee #2', Sergey Khaykin, 02 Sep 2016
RC3: 'High quality analysis of in situ data', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 Aug 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #3', Sergey Khaykin, 02 Sep 2016

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The study makes use of a series of field experiments conducted in Brazil and aimed at studying the processes controlling the composition of the tropical lower stratosphere. High-resolution balloon-borne measurements together with global-coverage satellite observations and weather radar acquisitions are analysed using trajectory and transport modelling in order to evaluate the contribution of different transport pathways to the stratospheric water budget.