Articles | Volume 16, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15301-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15301-2016
Research article
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09 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2016

Long-range transport pathways of tropospheric source gases originating in Asia into the northern lower stratosphere during the Asian monsoon season 2012

Bärbel Vogel, Gebhard Günther, Rolf Müller, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Armin Afchine, Heiko Bozem, Peter Hoor, Martina Krämer, Stefan Müller, Martin Riese, Christian Rolf, Nicole Spelten, Gabriele P. Stiller, Jörn Ungermann, and Andreas Zahn

Data sets

MIPAS data KIT http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/308.php

ACE-FTS version 3.0 data set: validation and data processing update C. Waymark, K. Walker, C. D. Boone, P. F. Bernath http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/6339

TACTS/ESMVal aircraft measurements HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/list/missions

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The identification of transport pathways from the Asian monsoon anticyclone into the lower stratosphere is unclear. Global simulations with the CLaMS model demonstrate that source regions in Asia and in the Pacific Ocean have a significant impact on the chemical composition of the lower stratosphere of the Northern Hemisphere by flooding the extratropical lower stratosphere with young moist air masses. Two main horizontal transport pathways from the Asian monsoon anticyclone are identified.
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