Observations of convective and dynamical instabilities in tropopause folds and their contribution to stratosphere-troposphere exchange

Observations of convective and dynamical instabilities in tropopause folds and their contribution to stratosphere-troposphere exchange

With aircraft-mounted in situ and remote sensing instruments for dynamical, thermal, and chemical measurements we studied two cases of tropopause folding. In both folds we found Kelvin-Helmholtz billows with horizontal wavelength of ∼900 m and thickness of ∼120 m. In one case the instability was eff...

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Main Authors: Cho, John Y. N., Newell, Reginald E., Bui, T. Paul, Browell, Edward V., Fenn, Marta A., Mahoney, Michael J., Gregory, Gerald L., Sachse, Glen W., Vay, Stephanie A., Kucsera, Tom L., Thompson, Anne M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111136

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