Stratospheric influence on upper tropospheric tropical cirrus

By M. Boehm, J. Verlinde. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

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4. Dong Liu
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In Global and Planetary Change

1. William J. Randel
2. Fei Wu
3. Dong Liu
4. D. Hartmann
5. Q. Fu
6. Zhien Wang
7. Jialin Lin
8. Kenneth Sassen

Citations in the corpus

• Kelvin wave variability near the equatorial tropopause observed in GPS radio occultation measurements (2005, background): “Both the convectively coupled and ‘‘free’’ Kelvin waves can significantly affect the behavior of the tropical tropopause, and have been shown to influence dehydration and cirrus formation [Fujiwara et al., 2001; Boehm and Verlinde, 2000 ], ozone transport [Fujiwara et al., 1998; Fujiwara and Takaha”
• The mesoscale convection life cycle: building block or prototype for large-scale tropical waves? (2006, background): “Absolute accuracy of thermodynamic measurements is one perpetual problem (Ciesielski et al., 2003; Guichard et al., 2000), while spotty undersampling within a broad spectrum of scales introduces further random errors (Mapes et al., 2004). Statistical analysis can overcome these challenges, and also ”
• The heat balance of the tropical tropopause, cirrus, and stratospheric dehydration (2001, background): “…of sub-visible cirrus is the adiabatic cooling of air parcels near the tropical tropopause to temperatures below saturation by uplift associated with Kelvin waves, convectively generated gravity waves, or forced circulations associated with organized convective systems [Boehm and Verlinde, 2000].”
• Thermal variability of the tropical tropopause region derived from GPS/MET observations (2003, background): “Our results suggest that such wave variability, due to inertia-gravity waves, or other tropical oscillations such as Kelvin waves [Boehm and Verlinde, 2000; Fujiwara et al., 2001; Straub and Kiladis, 2002], is a key component of tropical tropopause behavior.”
• Cirrus clouds and deep convection in the tropics: Insights from CALIPSO and CloudSat (2009, background): “It has been speculated that synoptic-scale ascent and vertically propagating Kelvin or gravity waves, often themselves initiated by organized convection, could be contributing to cirrus formation in areas distant from deep tropical convection [Boehm and Verlinde, 2000].”