Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes

By Benjamin D. Santer, Michael F. Wehner, T. Wigley, R. Sausen, Gerald A. Meehl, K. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, Warren M. Washington, J. Boyle and 1 more. Science, 2003

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THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “This behavior has been confirmed in model simulations [ Santer et al. , 2003; Gettelman et al. , 2009, 2010].”
The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere (2004, methodology): “…temperature (in continuously stratified models), or an eddy flux of potential vorticity (in layer models) that can be interpreted as a flux in the isentropic surface layer; however, both eddy flux components do not appear simultaneously in quasigeostrophic models [see Schneider (2003) for details].”
Response of the large‐scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming (2015, result): “An observed increase in the height of the tropopause was noted and attributed to anthropogenic forcing by Santer et al. (2003) and Kang et al. (2013) found it to be a robust result in a modelling study.”
Self-Organization of Atmospheric Macroturbulence into Critical States of Weak Nonlinear Eddy-Eddy Interactions (2006, methodology): “…vorticity gradient vanishes, but as long as the potential vorticity fluxes in those regions vanish or are small, the structure of the eddy diffusivity in those regions is not essential for the adequacy of the estimate (2); see Schneider (2004) for examples of diffusivities from GCM simulations.]”
Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment (2010, background): “This sensitivity is anticipated as strong cooling in the lower stratosphere increases the temperature lapse rate near the tropopause, pushing the location where the rate reaches 2 K/km upward [ Santer et al. , 2003; Son et al. , 2009a].”
Determining the tropopause height from gridded data (2003, methodology): “The method has already been used in several previous studies [e.g., Grewe and Dameris, 1996; Stuber et al., 2001; Santer et al., 2003a; Sausen and Santer, 2003; Santer et al., 2003b].”