The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere

By Tapio Schneider. 2004

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Fine‐scale structure of the extratropical tropopause region (2006, methodology): “[6] The extratropical tropopause is predominantly controlled by the large-scale turbulent mixing due to baroclinic eddies [e.g., Schneider, 2004].”
The Extratropical Tropopause Inversion Layer: Global Observations with GPS Data, and a Radiative Forcing Mechanism (2007, background): “While the overall structure of the extratropical tropopause is tightly coupled to baroclinic wave dynamics (e.g., Haynes et al. 2001; Schneider 2004), our work suggests that radiative heating may play an important and perhaps dominant role for governing near tropopause temperature structure (despite”
Eddy Influences on Hadley Circulations: Simulations with an Idealized GCM (2006, methodology): “As in the simulations of Schneider (2004), the thermal relaxation time near the surface (at ␴ levels below ␴ ϭ 0.85) varies in most simulations from 7 days at the equator to 50 days at the poles, with a cos 8 ␾ dependence of its inverse on latitude.”
A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part II: Energy Transports in Altered Climates (2007, background): “However, Schneider (2004) shows in an idealized dry model that the static stability adjusts to keep the Rossby radius proportional to the Rhines scale, preventing a significant inverse cascade.”
The dynamic range of poleward energy transport in an atmospheric general circulation model (2005, background): “Available theories [Held, 1982; Juckes, 2000; Schneider, 2004] link static stability to meridional temperature gradients, but are silent as to the changes in static stability with global-mean temperature found here.”
On the arrest of inverse energy cascade and the rhines scale (2006, background): “The Rhines scale plays a prominent role in many theories of largescale atmospheric and oceanic circulation (see, e.g., James and Gray 1986; Vallis and Maltrud 1993; Held and Larichev 1996; Held 1999; Lapeyre and Held 2003; Schneider 2004; LaCasce and Pedlosky 2004; Vallis 2006) as well as in theorie”
Climate dynamics of a hard snowball Earth (2005, background): “[24] A further complicating factor is that the midlatitude lapse rate and tropopause are at least partly determined by synoptic eddy dynamics [Schneider, 2005].”
Eddy-Mediated Regime Transitions in the Seasonal Cycle of a Hadley Circulation and Implications for Monsoon Dynamics (2008, methodology): “The transition in the relaxation coefficient between the surface and the interior atmosphere is linear in the model's vertical sigma coordinate , as in the simulations of Held and Suarez (1994), Schneider (2004), and Schneider and Walker (2006).”
Variability and trends in the global tropopause estimated from radiosonde data (2006, background): “…might be expected because the equilibrium structure and dynamical balance of the tropopause is fundamentally different between the tropics (radiative-convective balance [e.g., Thuburn and Craig, 2002]) versus extratropics (baroclinic wave dynamics [e.g., Haynes et al., 2001; Schneider, 2004]).”
Observational characteristics of double tropopauses (2007, background): “The tropopause in the extratropics is lower ( 8–12 km), with an equilibrium structure determined by baroclinic wave dynamics [Held, 1982; Haynes et al., 2001; Schneider, 2004].”