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• A case study on the impact of severe convective storms on the water vapor mixing ratio in the lower mid-latitude stratosphere observed in 2019 over Europe.

  Authors:Dina Khordakova, Christian Rolf, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Rolf Müller, Paul Konopka, Andreas Wieser, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 21, 2022433 words Case study Extreme convective events in the troposphere not only have immediate impacts on the surface, but they can also influence the dynamics and composition of the lower stratosphere (LS). One major impact is the moistening of...

• Propagation paths and source distributions of resolved gravity waves in ECMWF-IFS analysis fields around the southern polar night jet.

  Authors:Cornelia Strube, Peter Preusse, Manfred Ern, and Martin RieseFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 24) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 22, 2021373 words Brief article In the southern winter polar stratosphere, the distribution of gravity wave momentum flux in many state-of-the-art climate simulations is inconsistent with long-time satellite and superpressure balloon observations...

• The semiannual oscillation (SAO) in the tropical middle atmosphere and its gravity wave driving in reanalyses and satellite observations.

  Authors:Manfred Ern, Mohamadou Diallo, Peter Preusse, Martin G. Mlynczak, Michael J. Schwartz, Qian Wu, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 18) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 16, 2021448 words Article Gravity waves play a significant role in driving the semiannual oscillation (SAO) of the zonal wind in the tropics. However, detailed knowledge of this forcing is missing, and direct estimates from global observations of...

• POLSTRACC: Airborne Experiment for Studying the Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO): The POLSTRACC mission provided a wealth of data on the structure and comparison of the Arctic lower-most stratosphere and upper troposphere during the extraordinarily cold winter 2015/16.

  Authors:Hermann Oelhaf, Bjorn-Martin Sinnhuber, Wolfgang Woiwode, Harald Bonisch, Heiko Bozem, Andreas Engel, et al.From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 100, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 201913,407 words Article 1530LABSTRACT The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (POLSTRACC) mission employed the German High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO). The payload comprised an innovative combination of remote sensing and...

• Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of atmospheric gravity waves in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT)

  Authors:Rui Song, Martin Kaufmann, Manfred Ern, Guang Liu, and Martin RieseFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 11, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  June 1, 2018360 words Author abstract, Bri... Gravity waves (GWs) have been intensively studied over recent decades because of their dominant role in the dynamics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). The momentum deposition caused by breaking GWs...

• A climatology of polar stratospheric cloud composition between 2002 and 2012 based on MIPAS/Envisat observations

  Authors:Reinhold Spang, Lars Hoffmann, Ines Tritscher, Michael Pitts, Andrew Orr, and Martin RieseFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 16, 2018391 words Author abstract, Bri... The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) instrument aboard the European Space Agency (ESA) Envisat satellite operated from July 2002 to April 2012. The infrared limb...

• Aerosol and cloud top height information of Envisat MIPAS measurements

  Authors:Sabine Griessbach, Lars Hoffmann, Reinhold Spang, Peggy Achtert, Marc von Hobe, Nina Mateshvili, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 13, 2020446 words Brief article Infrared limb emission instruments have a long history in measuring clouds and aerosol. In particular, the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) instrument aboard ESA's Envisat provides 10...

• GRACILE: a comprehensive climatology of atmospheric gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings

  Authors:Manfred Ern, Quang Thai Trinh, Peter Preusse, John C. Gille, Martin G. Mlynczak, James M. Russell III, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 27, 2018317 words Author abstract, Bri... Gravity waves are one of the main drivers of atmospheric dynamics. The spatial resolution of most global atmospheric models, however, is too coarse to properly resolve the small scales of gravity waves, which range from...

• A highly miniaturized satellite payload based on a spatial heterodyne spectrometer for atmospheric temperature measurements in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

  Authors:Martin Kaufmann, Friedhelm Olschewski, Klaus Mantel, Brian Solheim, Gordon Shepherd, Michael Deiml, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 2, 2018364 words Author abstract, Bri...

  A highly miniaturized limb sounder for the observation of the O.sub.2 A-band to derive temperatures in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere is presented. The instrument consists of a monolithic spatial heterodyne...

• Multitimescale variations in modeled stratospheric water vapor derived from three modern reanalysis products

  Authors:Mengchu Tao, Paul Konopka, Felix Ploeger, Xiaolu Yan, Jonathon S. Wright, Mohamadou Diallo, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 16, 2019390 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Stratospheric water vapor (SWV) plays important roles in the radiation budget and ozone chemistry and is a valuable tracer for understanding stratospheric transport. Meteorological reanalyses provide variables...

• Infrared limb emission measurements of aerosol in the troposphere and stratosphere

  Authors:Sabine Griessbach, Lars Hoffmann, Reinhold Spang, Marc von Hobe, and Martin RieseFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 9, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 7, 2016204 words Brief article Altitude-resolved aerosol detection in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) is a challenging task for remote sensing instruments. Infrared limb emission measurements provide vertically resolved global...

• Observation of cirrus clouds with GLORIA during the WISE campaign: detection methods and cirrus characterization.

  Authors:Irene Bartolome Garcia, Reinhold Spang, Jörn Ungermann, Sabine Griessbach, Martina Krämer, Michael Höpfner, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 29, 2021294 words Brief article Cirrus clouds contribute to the general radiation budget of the Earth and play an important role in climate projections. Of special interest are optically thin cirrus clouds close to the tropopause due to the fact that...

• Impact of the Asian monsoon on the extratropical lower stratosphere: trace gas observations during TACTS over Europe 2012

  Authors:Peter Hoor, Heiko Bozem, Ellen Gute, Andreas Zahn, Timo Keber, Christian Rolf, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 25, 2016281 words Brief article The transport of air masses originating from the Asian monsoon anticyclone into the extratropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (Ex-UTLS) above potential temperatures...

• Superposition of gravity waves with different propagation characteristics observed by airborne and space-borne infrared sounders.

  Authors:Isabell Krisch, Manfred Ern, Lars Hoffmann, Peter Preusse, Cornelia Strube, Jörn Ungermann, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 19) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 7, 2020328 words Brief article Many gravity wave analyses, based on either observations or model simulations, assume the presence of only a single dominant wave. This paper shows that there are much more complex cases with gravity waves from multiple...

• Tuning of a convective gravity wave source scheme based on HIRDLS observations

  Authors:Quang Thai Trinh, Silvio Kalisch, Peter Preusse, Manfred Ern, Hye-Yeong Chun, Stephen D. Eckermann, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  June 13, 2016297 words Brief article Convection as one dominant source of atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) has been the focus of investigation over recent years. However, its spatial and temporal forcing scales are not well known. In this work we address...

• High tropospheric ozone in Lhasa within the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone in 2013: influence of convective transport and stratospheric intrusions

  Authors:Dan Li, Barbel Vogel, Rolf Muller, Jianchun Bian, Gebhard Gunther, Qian Li, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 24) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 18, 2018306 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Balloon-borne measurements of ozone in Lhasa (29.66.sup.∘  N, 91.14.sup.∘  E; 3650 m above sea level) in August 2013 are investigated using backward trajectory...

• Sensitivities of modelled water vapour in the lower stratosphere: temperature uncertainty, effects of horizontal transport and small-scale mixing

  Authors:Liubov Poshyvailo, Paul Konopka, Martin Riese, and Felix PloegerFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  June 18, 2018436 words Author abstract, Bri... Water vapour (H.sub.2 O) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) has a significant role for global radiation. A realistic representation of H.sub.2 O is therefore critical for accurate climate model...

• 3-D tomographic observations of Rossby wave breaking over the North Atlantic during the WISE aircraft campaign in 2017.

  Authors:Lukas Krasauskas, Jörn Ungermann, Peter Preusse, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Andreas Zahn, Helmut Ziereis, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 13) Peer-Reviewed

  July 7, 2021384 words Brief article This paper presents measurements of ozone, water vapour and nitric acid (HNO.sub.3) in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) over North Atlantic and Europe. The measurements were acquired with the Gimballed...

• The stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation inferred from age of air in the ERA5 reanalysis.

  Authors:Felix Ploeger, Mohamadou Diallo, Edward Charlesworth, Paul Konopka, Bernard Legras, Johannes C. Laube, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  June 2, 2021324 words Brief article This paper investigates the global stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) in the ERA5 meteorological reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The analysis is based on...

• Satellite observations of middle atmosphere gravity wave absolute momentum flux and of its vertical gradient during recent stratospheric warmings

  Authors:Manfred Ern, Quang Thai Trinh, Martin Kaufmann, Isabell Krisch, Peter Preusse, Yajun Zhu, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 15) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 9, 2016384 words Brief article Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are circulation anomalies in the polar region during winter. They mostly occur in the Northern Hemisphere and affect also surface weather and climate. Both planetary waves and...