3-D tomographic observations of Rossby wave breaking over the North Atlantic during the WISE aircraft campaign in 2017

Krasauskas, Lukas; Ungermann, Jörn; Preusse, Peter; Friedl-Vallon, Felix; Zahn, Andreas; Ziereis, Helmut; Rolf, Christian; Plöger, Felix; Konopka, Paul; Vogel, Bärbel; Riese, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10249-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 13

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07 Jul 2021

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| 07 Jul 2021

3-D tomographic observations of Rossby wave breaking over the North Atlantic during the WISE aircraft campaign in 2017

Lukas Krasauskas, Jörn Ungermann, Peter Preusse, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Andreas Zahn, Helmut Ziereis, Christian Rolf, Felix Plöger, Paul Konopka, Bärbel Vogel, and Martin Riese

Data sets

Dataset #7471, revision 1 | WISE_10_20171007_GLORIA-FZJ_L1V02.01pre-L2V02pre- tomo.nc The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/7471

Dataset #5503, revision 1 | 2017-10-07- L1V01.01pre-L2V01pre.nc The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5503

Dataset #5504, revision 1 | 2017-10-09- L1V01.01pre-L2V01pre.nc The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5504

Dataset #5488, revision 1 | WISE_10_20171007_1_FISH_H2O_V1.ames The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5488

Dataset #5489, revision 1 | WISE_11_20171009_1_FISH_H2O_V1.ames The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5489

Dataset #5549, revision 1 | W10_20171007_AENEAS_V1.txt The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5549

Dataset #5550, revision 1 | W11_20171009_AENEAS_V1.txt The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5550

Dataset #5685, revision 1 | WISE_10_20171007_FAIRO_O3_V1.ames The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5685

Dataset #5687, revision 1 | WISE_11_20171009_FAIRO_O3_V1.ames The HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/dataset/5687

Short summary

A Rossby wave (RW) breaking event was observed over the North Atlantic during the WISE measurement campaign in October 2017. Infrared limb sounding measurements of trace gases in the lower stratosphere, including high-resolution 3-D tomographic reconstruction, revealed complex spatial structures in stratospheric tracers near the polar jet related to previous RW breaking events. Backward-trajectory analysis and tracer correlations were used to study mixing and stratosphere–troposphere exchange.