How sharp is the tropopause at midlatitudes?

By T. Birner, A. Dörnbrack, Ulrich Schumann. 2002

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Fine‐scale structure of the extratropical tropopause region (2006, background): “At 48 N the TIL is about 2 km thick, which corresponds to the value for Munich [Birner et al., 2002], also located at 48 N, but at a very different longitude.”
Horizontal water vapor transport in the lower stratosphere from subtropics to high latitudes during boreal summer (2013, methodology): “The zonal average is calculated using the distance to the thermal tropopause (in ), based on the temperature lapse rate [World Meteorological Organization, 1957], as vertical coordinate [compare Birner et al., 2002], to precisely present the structures in the UTLS water vapor distribution.”
Internal gravity waves from atmospheric jets and fronts (2014, background): “This may be relevant as the upper-tropospheric jet-stream is indeed just below the tropopause and its sharp jump in stratification [Birner et al., 2002; Gettelman et al., 2011].”
A global view of the extratropical tropopause transition layer from Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer O3, H2O, and CO (2009, methodology): “…of a variable of interest relative to the tropopause height) are widely used in UTLS studies of both chemical tracer distributions [Logan et al., 1999; Hoor et al., 2004; Pan et al., 2004; Hegglin et al., 2006] and dynamical variables [Birner et al., 2002; Birner, 2006; Randel et al., 2007].”
Solar occultation satellite data and derived meteorological products: Sampling issues and comparisons with Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (2007, background): “…used here (especially the WMO tropopause where the calculation of vertical gradient changes depends on resolution) are not expected to be able to capture very fine vertical structure that often exists near the tropopause and can alter local tropopause levels [e.g., Birner et al., 2002].”
THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “Birner et al. [2002] noted the climatological existence of this elevated static stability layer on the basis of radiosonde data in tropopause relative coordinates (e.g., Figure 3).”
The Extratropical Tropopause Inversion Layer: Global Observations with GPS Data, and a Radiative Forcing Mechanism (2007, methodology): “These analyses were based on radiosonde data from two German stations (Birner et al. 2002), and from 80 U.S. stations spanning the Tropics to polar regions (Birner 2006).”
Definitions and sharpness of the extratropical tropopause: A trace gas perspective (2004, result): “Our results indicate that the inversion discussed by Birner et al. [2002] occurs not only at high-latitude locations but also at subtropical locations.”