An assessment of tropopause characteristics of the ERA5 and ERA-Interim meteorological reanalyses

<p>The tropopause layer plays a key role in manifold processes in atmospheric chemistry and physics. Here we compare the representation and characteristics of the lapse rate tropopause according to the definition of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as estimated from European Centre...

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Main Authors: L. Hoffmann, R. Spang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2022-03-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/4019/2022/acp-22-4019-2022.pdf