Variability and trends in the global tropopause estimated from radiosonde data

By D. Seidel, William J. Randel. 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. William J. Randel
2. Fei Wu
3. Jian Lu
4. M. Hegglin
5. Andrew Gettelman
6. D. Seidel
7. L. Pan
8. Piers M. Forster

In Global and Planetary Change

1. William J. Randel
2. Fei Wu
3. Jian Lu
4. Andrew Gettelman
5. D. Seidel
6. M. Hegglin
7. L. Pan
8. Piers M. Forster

Citations in the corpus

• Cause of the widening of the tropical belt since 1958 (2008, methodology): “This result confirms the findings of Seidel and Randel [2007] and corroborates the reality of the expansion of the tropical belt since 1958.”
• Recent widening of the tropical belt: Evidence from tropopause observations (2007, background): “…that the tropopause has risen in the past 2–3 decades both in the tropics [Randel et al., 2000; Seidel et al., 2001; Zhou et al., 2001] and globally [Hoinka, 1998; Santer et al., 2003] in association with stratospheric cooling and, less strongly with, tropospheric warming [Seidel and Randel, 2006].”
• Observational characteristics of double tropopauses (2007, methodology): “The mean altitude of LRT1 exhibits a strong annual cycle, varying from near 12 km in winter to near 15 km in summer, which is typical of NH midlatitudes [Seidel and Randel, 2006].”
• The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Early Results (2008, background): “The global tropopause has received considerable attention for problems in dynamic meteorology and stratosphere–troposphere coupling, and for potential as an indicator of climate variability and change (Santer et al. 2003; Seidel and Randel 2006).”
• THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “Attribution studies by Santer et al. [2003] indicate that tropopause height changes are linked to greenhouse gas forcing of climate, in addition to effects of stratospheric ozone losses [ Seidel and Randel , 2006; Son et al. , 2009].”
• The Extratropical Tropopause Inversion Layer: Global Observations with GPS Data, and a Radiative Forcing Mechanism (2007, background): “This similar behavior of the TIL between summer and winter is interesting, especially given the large seasonal variation in the height of the extratropical tropopause (e.g., Hoinka 1998; Birner 2006; Seidel and Randel 2006).”
• Tropopause height and zonal wind response to global warming in the IPCC scenario integrations (2007, background): “( Seidel and Randel [2006] estimate a 64 m change per decade in radiosonde data, and Santer et al. [2003] find a 120 m change in a GCM and a 190 m change in the NCEP reanalysis since 1979.) The largest disc cy between lapse rate change and lapse rate vertical derivative occur in the tropics, where ”