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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10055-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10055-2024
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12 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 12 Sep 2024

Relative humidity over ice as a key variable for Northern Hemisphere midlatitude tropopause inversion layers

Daniel Köhler, Philipp Reutter, and Peter Spichtinger

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In this work, the influence of humidity on the properties of the tropopause is studied. The tropopause is the interface between the troposphere and the stratosphere and represents a barrier for the transport of air masses between the troposphere and the stratosphere. We consider not only the tropopause itself, but also a layer around it called the tropopause inversion layer (TIL). It is shown that the moister the underlying atmosphere is, the more this layer acts as a barrier.
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