The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (POLSTRACC) (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)(ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)
The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (POLSTRACC) (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)(ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): B.-M. Sinnhuber, H. Oelhaf, M. Chipperfield, R. Müller, and R. Schofield Special issue jointly organized between Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
The special issue invites contributions based on the aircraft campaign "The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (POLSTRACC)" that took place in the Arctic in winter 2015/16 (www.polstracc.kit.edu) but is intended to be open for submissions related to the topic of the polar stratosphere in a changing climate in a broader sense.

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16 Jan 2023
Investigating the radiative effect of Arctic cirrus measured in situ during the winter 2015–2016
Andreas Marsing, Ralf Meerkötter, Romy Heller, Stefan Kaufmann, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Martina Krämer, Christian Rolf, and Christiane Voigt
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 587–609, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-587-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-587-2023, 2023
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17 Mar 2022
Redistribution of total reactive nitrogen in the lowermost Arctic stratosphere during the cold winter 2015/2016
Helmut Ziereis, Peter Hoor, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Andreas Zahn, Greta Stratmann, Paul Stock, Michael Lichtenstern, Jens Krause, Vera Bense, Armin Afchine, Christian Rolf, Wolfgang Woiwode, Marleen Braun, Jörn Ungermann, Andreas Marsing, Christiane Voigt, Andreas Engel, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, and Hermann Oelhaf
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 3631–3654, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3631-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3631-2022, 2022
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03 Mar 2022
Challenge of modelling GLORIA observations of upper troposphere–lowermost stratosphere trace gas and cloud distributions at high latitudes: a case study with state-of-the-art models
Florian Haenel, Wolfgang Woiwode, Jennifer Buchmüller, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Michael Höpfner, Sören Johansson, Farahnaz Khosrawi, Oliver Kirner, Anne Kleinert, Hermann Oelhaf, Johannes Orphal, Roland Ruhnke, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Jörn Ungermann, Michael Weimer, and Peter Braesicke
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 2843–2870, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2843-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2843-2022, 2022
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11 Dec 2020
Technical note: Lowermost-stratosphere moist bias in ECMWF IFS model diagnosed from airborne GLORIA observations during winter–spring 2016
Wolfgang Woiwode, Andreas Dörnbrack, Inna Polichtchouk, Sören Johansson, Ben Harvey, Michael Höpfner, Jörn Ungermann, and Felix Friedl-Vallon
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 15379–15387, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15379-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15379-2020, 2020
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06 Apr 2020
Bromine from short-lived source gases in the extratropical northern hemispheric upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS)
Timo Keber, Harald Bönisch, Carl Hartick, Marius Hauck, Fides Lefrancois, Florian Obersteiner, Akima Ringsdorf, Nils Schohl, Tanja Schuck, Ryan Hossaini, Phoebe Graf, Patrick Jöckel, and Andreas Engel
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 4105–4132, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4105-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4105-2020, 2020
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11 Nov 2019
Nitrification of the lowermost stratosphere during the exceptionally cold Arctic winter 2015–2016
Marleen Braun, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Wolfgang Woiwode, Sören Johansson, Michael Höpfner, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Hermann Oelhaf, Peter Preusse, Jörn Ungermann, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Helmut Ziereis, and Peter Braesicke
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 13681–13699, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13681-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13681-2019, 2019
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26 Aug 2019
Chlorine partitioning in the lowermost Arctic vortex during the cold winter 2015/2016
Andreas Marsing, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Stefan Kaufmann, Romy Heller, Andreas Engel, Peter Hoor, Jens Krause, and Christiane Voigt
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 10757–10772, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10757-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10757-2019, 2019
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27 Jun 2019
Unusual chlorine partitioning in the 2015/16 Arctic winter lowermost stratosphere: observations and simulations
Sören Johansson, Michelle L. Santee, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Michael Höpfner, Marleen Braun, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Farahnaz Khosrawi, Oliver Kirner, Erik Kretschmer, Hermann Oelhaf, Johannes Orphal, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Ines Tritscher, Jörn Ungermann, Kaley A. Walker, and Wolfgang Woiwode
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 8311–8338, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8311-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8311-2019, 2019
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23 Jan 2019
Effects of Arctic stratospheric ozone changes on spring precipitation in the northwestern United States
Xuan Ma, Fei Xie, Jianping Li, Xinlong Zheng, Wenshou Tian, Ruiqiang Ding, Cheng Sun, and Jiankai Zhang
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 861–875, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-861-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-861-2019, 2019
30 Oct 2018
Widespread polar stratospheric ice clouds in the 2015–2016 Arctic winter – implications for ice nucleation
Christiane Voigt, Andreas Dörnbrack, Martin Wirth, Silke M. Groß, Michael C. Pitts, Lamont R. Poole, Robert Baumann, Benedikt Ehard, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Wolfgang Woiwode, and Hermann Oelhaf
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 15623–15641, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15623-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15623-2018, 2018
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30 Oct 2018
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Mesoscale fine structure of a tropopause fold over mountains
Wolfgang Woiwode, Andreas Dörnbrack, Martina Bramberger, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Florian Haenel, Michael Höpfner, Sören Johansson, Erik Kretschmer, Isabell Krisch, Thomas Latzko, Hermann Oelhaf, Johannes Orphal, Peter Preusse, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, and Jörn Ungermann
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 15643–15667, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15643-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15643-2018, 2018
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25 Oct 2018
The MIPAS/Envisat climatology (2002–2012) of polar stratospheric cloud volume density profiles
Michael Höpfner, Terry Deshler, Michael Pitts, Lamont Poole, Reinhold Spang, Gabriele Stiller, and Thomas von Clarmann
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 5901–5923, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5901-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5901-2018, 2018
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14 Aug 2018
Airborne limb-imaging measurements of temperature, HNO3, O3, ClONO2, H2O and CFC-12 during the Arctic winter 2015/2016: characterization, in situ validation and comparison to Aura/MLS
Sören Johansson, Wolfgang Woiwode, Michael Höpfner, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Anne Kleinert, Erik Kretschmer, Thomas Latzko, Johannes Orphal, Peter Preusse, Jörn Ungermann, Michelle L. Santee, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Andreas Marsing, Christiane Voigt, Andreas Giez, Martina Krämer, Christian Rolf, Andreas Zahn, Andreas Engel, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, and Hermann Oelhaf
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 4737–4756, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4737-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4737-2018, 2018
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20 Jun 2018
On the discrepancy of HCl processing in the core of the wintertime polar vortices
Jens-Uwe Grooß, Rolf Müller, Reinhold Spang, Ines Tritscher, Tobias Wegner, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Wuhu Feng, Douglas E. Kinnison, and Sasha Madronich
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 8647–8666, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8647-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8647-2018, 2018
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02 May 2018
Mixing and ageing in the polar lower stratosphere in winter 2015–2016
Jens Krause, Peter Hoor, Andreas Engel, Felix Plöger, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Harald Bönisch, Timo Keber, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Wolfgang Woiwode, and Hermann Oelhaf
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6057–6073, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6057-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6057-2018, 2018
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18 Dec 2017
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First tomographic observations of gravity waves by the infrared limb imager GLORIA
Isabell Krisch, Peter Preusse, Jörn Ungermann, Andreas Dörnbrack, Stephen D. Eckermann, Manfred Ern, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Martin Kaufmann, Hermann Oelhaf, Markus Rapp, Cornelia Strube, and Martin Riese
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 14937–14953, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14937-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14937-2017, 2017
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01 Nov 2017
Denitrification, dehydration and ozone loss during the 2015/2016 Arctic winter
Farahnaz Khosrawi, Oliver Kirner, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, Sören Johansson, Michael Höpfner, Michelle L. Santee, Lucien Froidevaux, Jörn Ungermann, Roland Ruhnke, Wolfgang Woiwode, Hermann Oelhaf, and Peter Braesicke
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 12893–12910, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12893-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12893-2017, 2017
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