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| 27 Nov 2018
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Intercomparison of midlatitude tropospheric and lower-stratospheric water vapor measurements and comparison to ECMWF humidity data
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christiane Voigt
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Romy Heller
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Tina Jurkat-Witschas
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Martina Krämer
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-7), 52428 Jülich, Germany
Christian Rolf
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-7), 52428 Jülich, Germany
Martin Zöger
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Flight Experiments, 822234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Andreas Giez
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Flight Experiments, 822234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Bernhard Buchholz
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Volker Ebert
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Troy Thornberry
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ulrich Schumann
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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We present an intercomparison of the airborne water vapor measurements during the ML-CIRRUS mission. Although the agreement of the hygrometers significantly improved compared to studies from recent decades, systematic differences remain under specific meteorological conditions. We compare the measurements to model data, where we observe a model wet bias in the lower stratosphere close to the tropopause, likely caused by a blurred humidity gradient in the model tropopause.
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