Intercomparison of meteorological analyses and trajectories in the Antarctic lower stratosphere with Concordiasi superpressure balloon observations

Hoffmann, Lars; Hertzog, Albert; Rößler, Thomas; Stein, Olaf; Wu, Xue

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8045-2017

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04 Jul 2017

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Intercomparison of meteorological analyses and trajectories in the Antarctic lower stratosphere with Concordiasi superpressure balloon observations

Lars Hoffmann, Albert Hertzog, Thomas Rößler, Olaf Stein, and Xue Wu

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RC1: 'reviewer comment', Andreas Stohl, 17 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Review of acp-2017-71', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Feb 2017
RC3: 'Reviewer comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Mar 2017
RC4: 'data assimilation', Andreas Stohl, 20 Mar 2017
SC1: 'Group Review of Hoffmann et al', Cameron Homeyer, 27 Mar 2017
AC1: 'initial author reply', Lars Hoffmann, 18 Apr 2017
EC1: 'Co-Editor Comment', Farahnaz Khosrawi, 18 Apr 2017

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AR by Lars Hoffmann on behalf of the Authors (29 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 May 2017) by Farahnaz Khosrawi

RR by Andreas Stohl (07 Jun 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Jun 2017) by Farahnaz Khosrawi

AR by Lars Hoffmann on behalf of the Authors (07 Jun 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We present an intercomparison of temperatures and horizontal winds of five meteorological data sets (ECMWF operational analysis, ERA-Interim, MERRA, MERRA-2, and NCEP/NCAR) in the Antarctic lower stratosphere. The assessment is based on 19 superpressure balloon flights during the Concordiasi field campaign in September 2010 to January 2011. The balloon data are used to successfully validate trajectory calculations with the new Lagrangian particle dispersion model MPTRAC.