Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3383-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3383-2016
Research article
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15 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 15 Mar 2016

Convective sources of trajectories traversing the tropical tropopause layer

Ann-Sophie Tissier and Bernard Legras

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Transit properties across the TTL are studied using forward and backward Lagrangian trajectories between cloud tops and the reference surface 380 K. The tropical domain is subdivided into 11 subregions according to the distribution of land and convection. Due to the good agreement between forward and backward statistics, we estimate the contribution of each region to the upward mass flux across the 380 K surface, the vertical distribution of convective sources and of transit times over 2005–2008.
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