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Articles | Volume 24, issue 23
Articles | Volume 24, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13653-2024
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11 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 11 Dec 2024

Variability and trends in the potential vorticity (PV)-gradient dynamical tropopause

Katharina Turhal, Felix Plöger, Jan Clemens, Thomas Birner, Franziska Weyland, Paul Konopka, and Peter Hoor

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The tropopause separates the troposphere, where many greenhouse gases originate, from the stratosphere. This study examines a tropopause defined by potential vorticity – an analogue for angular momentum that changes sharply in the subtropics, creating a transport barrier. Between 1980 and 2017, this tropopause shifted poleward at lower altitudes and equatorward above, suggesting height-dependent changes in atmospheric circulation that may affect greenhouse gas distribution and global warming.
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