Articles | Volume 25, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7941-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7941-2025
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25 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2025

Lagrangian coherent structures to examine mixing in the stratosphere

Jezabel Curbelo and Marianna Linz

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Replication Data for: Linz et al. 2021 Stratospheric adiabatic mixing rates derived from the vertical gradient of age of air M. Linz https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GBRCWW

NGeo2017\_plots.m M. Linz et al. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5229844.v1

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Studying stratospheric mixing is crucial for understanding atmospheric dynamics and chemical transport. We propose a new Lagrangian metric based on the density of transport barriers, attracting/repelling coherent structures, to analyze mixing in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. Our metric is a promising tool for stratospheric analysis, consistent with commonly used metrics to quantify mixing while also providing the advantage of reflecting Lagrangian transport in physical latitude.
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