Trend differences in lower stratospheric water vapour between Boulder and the zonal mean and their role in understanding fundamental observational discrepancies

Lossow, Stefan; Hurst, Dale F.; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Stiller, Gabriele P.; von Clarmann, Thomas; Brinkop, Sabine; Dameris, Martin; Jöckel, Patrick; Kinnison, Doug E.; Plieninger, Johannes; Plummer, David A.; Ploeger, Felix; Read, William G.; Remsberg, Ellis E.; Russell, James M.; Tao, Mengchu

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8331-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8331-2018

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14 Jun 2018

Research article |

| 14 Jun 2018

Trend differences in lower stratospheric water vapour between Boulder and the zonal mean and their role in understanding fundamental observational discrepancies

Stefan Lossow, Dale F. Hurst, Karen H. Rosenlof, Gabriele P. Stiller, Thomas von Clarmann, Sabine Brinkop, Martin Dameris, Patrick Jöckel, Doug E. Kinnison, Johannes Plieninger, David A. Plummer, Felix Ploeger, William G. Read, Ellis E. Remsberg, James M. Russell, and Mengchu Tao

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RC1: 'Review of ACP-2017-1120', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'response to comments of reviewer #2', Stefan Lossow, 22 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'response to the comments of reviewer #1', Stefan Lossow, 22 Apr 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Stefan Lossow on behalf of the Authors (22 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 May 2018) by Stefan Buehler

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (04 May 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (08 May 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (09 May 2018) by Stefan Buehler

AR by Stefan Lossow on behalf of the Authors (13 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 May 2018) by Stefan Buehler

AR by Stefan Lossow on behalf of the Authors (17 May 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Trend estimates of lower stratospheric H₂O derived from the FPH observations at Boulder and a merged zonal mean satellite data set clearly differ for the time period from the late 1980s to 2010. We investigate if a sampling bias between Boulder and the zonal mean around the Boulder latitude can explain these trend discrepancies. Typically they are small and not sufficient to explain the trend discrepancies in the observational database.