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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4269-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4269-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Technical note: Water vapour climatologies in the extra-tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere derived from a synthesis of passenger and research aircraft measurements
Patrick Konjari
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 4 – Stratosphere, Jülich, Germany
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 4 – Stratosphere, Jülich, Germany
Michaela I. Hegglin
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 4 – Stratosphere, Jülich, Germany
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Susanne Rohs
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 3 – Troposphere, Jülich, Germany
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 3 – Troposphere, Jülich, Germany
Andreas Zahn
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Harald Bönisch
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Philippe Nedelec
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
Martina Krämer
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 4 – Stratosphere, Jülich, Germany
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Andreas Petzold
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 3 – Troposphere, Jülich, Germany
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Data sets
IAGOS Adjusted Water Vapor Climatologies P. Konjari et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14852197
Short summary
This study introduces a new method to derive adjusted water vapor (H2O) climatologies for the upper tropopshere and lower statosphere (UT/LS) using data from 60 000 flights under the IAGOS program. Biases in the IAGOS water vapour dataset are adjusted, based on the more accurate IAGOS-CARIBIC data. The resulting highly resolved H2O climatologies will contribute to a better understanding of the H2O variability in the UT/LS and its connection to various transport and mixing processes.
This study introduces a new method to derive adjusted water vapor (H2O) climatologies for the...
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