Decreases in stratospheric water vapor after 2001: Links to changes in the tropical tropopause and the Brewer‐Dobson circulation

By William J. Randel, Fei Wu, Holger Vömel, Gerald E. Nedoluha, Piers M. Forster. 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Tropical tropopause layer (2009, background): “5 ppmv occurred around the years 2000/ 2001 [Randel et al., 2006; Scherer et al., 2008].”
THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “The Asian and North American monsoons significantly impact tracer distributions in the Ex ‐ UTLS, as evidenced by satellite data [ Park et al. , 2004; Randel et al. , 2006; Fu et al. , 2006; Park et al. , 2008] and aircraft measurements [ Schuck et al. , 2010].”
Stratospheric water vapor trends over Boulder, Colorado: Analysis of the 30 year Boulder record (2011, methodology): “The period 3 water vapor decreases, which Randel et al. [2006] link to a drop in tropical tropopause temperatures, do not show the expected altitude dependency though this may be obscured by the large uncertainties in growth (Figure 4d).”
A stratospheric ozone profile data set for 1979–2005: Variability, trends, and comparisons with column ozone data (2007, methodology): “, 2003] ozonesonde data since 1998 [Randel et al., 2006].”
Trends in the temperature and water vapor content of the tropical lower stratosphere: Sea surface connection (2008, background): “While these variations have been noted in earlier publications [e.g., Randel et al., 2004; Thompson and Solomon, 2005] no clear picture of their cause and their relationship to other climatic parameters has emerged.”
Increase in background stratospheric aerosol observed with lidar at Mauna Loa Observatory and Boulder, Colorado (2009, background): “The second mechanism, increased circulation, has been proposed to explain a decrease in stratospheric water vapor of the order of 10% after about 2001 [Randel et al., 2006] associated with a colder tropopause ( 1 K).”