Aircraft observations of thin cirrus clouds near the tropical tropopause

By L. Pfister, H. Selkirk, Eric J. Jensen, Mark R. Schoeberl, O. B. Toon, E. Browell, W. Grant, B. Gary, M. Mahoney, T. Bui and 1 more. 2001

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Horizontal transport and the dehydration of the stratosphere (2001, background): “Climatological analyses [e.g., Highwood and Hoskins, 1998; Simmons et al., 1999] show that during Northern Hemisphere winter the equatorial tropopause is indeed coldest over the Western Pacific.”
Freezing thresholds and cirrus cloud formation mechanisms inferred from in situ measurements of relative humidity (2003, methodology): “We expand on previous work (Heymsfield and Miloshevich, 1995; Heymsfield et al., 1998; Pfister et al., 2001; Gettelman et al., 2002) by using more accurate tools to separate measurements of RHI inside and outside of clouds; by presenting new inferences concerning the dependence of the freezing thres”
Tropical troposphere‐to‐stratosphere transport inferred from trajectory calculations (2004, methodology): “2.1.1. Accuracy of Approach [15] Trajectory calculations in the tropical tropopause region were used in a number of recent studies [e.g., Jackson et al., 2001; Pfister et al., 2001; Gettelman et al., 2002b; Bonazzola and Haynes, 2003 ].”