Stratospheric Influence on Tropopause Height: The Radiative Constraint

By John Thuburn, George Craig. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Tropical tropopause layer (2009, background): “[109] Another feature of interest is that the tropical tropopause is situated several kilometers above the main convective outflow layer, and understanding the level of the tropopause (not just the tropical) remains an active topic of research [e.g., Manabe and Strickler, 1964; Held, 1982; Atticks a”
• Issues in Stratosphere-troposphere Coupling (2002, background): “There is enormous sensitivity here: Thuburn and Craig (2000) estimate that a change in the heating rates of only 0.1 K/day can change the position of the tropopause by 1 km.”
• WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES (2009, background): “This can be understood from radiative considerations [e.g., Held, 1982; Thuburn and Craig, 2000; Caballero et al., 2008] (see Schneider [2007]”
• Time-dependent upwelling in the tropical lower stratosphere estimated from the zonal-mean momentum budget (2002, result): “This is consistent with calculations showing that the the zonal mean temperature in the region near and above the tropical tropopause is below radiative equilibrium (Olaguer et al. 1992); this departure from equilibrium is maintained by the stratospheric circulation (Thuburn and Craig 1997, 2000).”
• The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere (2004, background): “…eddy diffusivity D(z) for potential vorticity that is, at the surface (z 5 0), equal to the eddy diffusivity for surface potential temperature (cf. Treguier et al. 1997), neglecting the relative vorticity gradient in the potential vorticity gradient ]y z ø b 1 f 0 ]z(r0]y z /]zu0), and…”
• Solar influence on the Indian Ocean Monsoon through dynamical processes (2004, methodology): “[14] Details of the process whereby the stratospheric change affects the convective activity in the equatorial region are still not clear, but an idealized general circulation model (GCM) experiment by Thuburn and Craig [2000] showed that the change in BD circulation induced by a momentum forcing ”
• Thermal variability of the tropical tropopause region derived from GPS/MET observations (2003, methodology): “…and monthly/seasonal statistics is suggestive of additional physical processes for monthly timescales, and one possibility is that radiative effects may be relatively more important for low frequency behavior of the tropopause [Thuburn and Craig, 2000, 2002; Norton, 2001; Hartman et al., 2001].”
• Transfer of the solar signal from the stratosphere to the troposphere: Northern winter (2004, unknown): “However, simplified GCM experiments from Thuburn and Craig [2000] support the above findings.”