Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events
This study examines various climatological features related to multiple tropopause events (MT events). The analysis is based on the lapse rate definition of the tropopause and is performed on a radiosonde data subset taken from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive database. The global statistics...
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| author | Añel, J Antuña, J De La Torre, L Castanheira, J Gimeno, L |
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| description | This study examines various climatological features related to multiple tropopause events (MT events). The analysis is based on the lapse rate definition of the tropopause and is performed on a radiosonde data subset taken from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive database. The global statistics of MT events are analyzed, taking into consideration both their seasonal and geographical variations. Our results are in moderate qualitative agreement with those of earlier studies. They reinforce the analytical findings of other researchers, but at the same time highlight important differences in both the number and position of the maximum occurrence of MT events. We found a latitudinal band of multiple tropopause occurrence in the Northern Hemisphere and three centers in the Southern Hemisphere, which coincided with identified zones of maximum cyclogenesis. The climatological features of pressure, temperature, arid vertical separation of MT events revealed the complexity of these phenomena, which behave very differently according to latitude and season. Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:25d143eb-7d6a-4962-9807-74f2d71ed7ee2022-03-26T11:57:41ZClimatological features of global multiple tropopause eventsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:25d143eb-7d6a-4962-9807-74f2d71ed7eeEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2009Añel, JAntuña, JDe La Torre, LCastanheira, JGimeno, LThis study examines various climatological features related to multiple tropopause events (MT events). The analysis is based on the lapse rate definition of the tropopause and is performed on a radiosonde data subset taken from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive database. The global statistics of MT events are analyzed, taking into consideration both their seasonal and geographical variations. Our results are in moderate qualitative agreement with those of earlier studies. They reinforce the analytical findings of other researchers, but at the same time highlight important differences in both the number and position of the maximum occurrence of MT events. We found a latitudinal band of multiple tropopause occurrence in the Northern Hemisphere and three centers in the Southern Hemisphere, which coincided with identified zones of maximum cyclogenesis. The climatological features of pressure, temperature, arid vertical separation of MT events revealed the complexity of these phenomena, which behave very differently according to latitude and season. Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union. |
| spellingShingle | Añel, J Antuña, J De La Torre, L Castanheira, J Gimeno, L Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events |
| title | Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events |
| title_full | Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events |
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