Evidence of small-scale quasi-isentropic mixing in ridges of extratropical baroclinic waves

Kunkel, Daniel; Hoor, Peter; Kaluza, Thorsten; Ungermann, Jörn; Kluschat, Björn; Giez, Andreas; Lachnitt, Hans-Christoph; Kaufmann, Martin; Riese, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12607-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12607-2019

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WISE: Wave-driven isentropic exchange in the extratropical...

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12607-2019

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09 Oct 2019

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| 09 Oct 2019

Evidence of small-scale quasi-isentropic mixing in ridges of extratropical baroclinic waves

Daniel Kunkel, Peter Hoor, Thorsten Kaluza, Jörn Ungermann, Björn Kluschat, Andreas Giez, Hans-Christoph Lachnitt, Martin Kaufmann, and Martin Riese

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Sep 2019) by Peter Haynes

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Short summary

In this study we present a mixing process around the tropopause in extratropical baroclinic waves. We analyze airborne data from a flight during the WISE campaign in autumn 2017 over the North Atlantic. We use idealized experiments to study the mixing process. Although the process occurs on a small geographical scale, it might be of importance due to its relation to a frequent feature of the extratropical UTLS. The process is relevant for STE but is not fully included in climatologies.