Measurements of atmospheric layers from the NASA DC-8 and P-3B aircraft during PEM-Tropics A

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Stoller, P
Cho, JYN
Newell, RE
Thouret, V
Zhu, Y
Carroll, MA
Albercook, GM
Anderson, BE
Barrick, JDW
Browell, EV
Gregory, GL
Sachse, GW
Vay, S
Bradshaw, JD
Sandholm, S
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[1] MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Dept Atmospher Ocean & Space Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[3] NASA, Langley Res Ctr, Hampton, VA 23681 USA
[4] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Earth & Atmospher Sci, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[5] CNRS, Lab Aerol, Toulouse, France
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10.1029/98JD02717
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P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
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0706 ; 070601 ;
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Tropospheric vertical structure was analyzed using in situ measurements of O-3, CO, CH4, and H2O taken on board the NASA DC-8 aircraft during three Pacific Exploratory Missions (PEMs): PEM-West A, September-October 1991 in the western Pacific; PEM-West B, February-March 1994 in the western Pacific; and PEM-Tropics A, September-October 1996 in the central and eastern Pacific. PEM-Tropics A added measurements from the NASA P3-B aircraft. We used a new mode-based method to define a background against which to find layers. Using only O-3 and H2O, we found 472 layers in PEM-Tropics A (0.72 layers per vertical kilometer profiled), 237 layers in PEM-West PI (0.54 layers/km), and;158 layers in PEM-West B (0.41 layers/km). Using all constituents, we found 187 layers in PEM-Tropics A (0.43 layers/km), 128 layers in PEM-West A (0.29 layers/km), and 80 layers in PEM-West B (0.21 layers/km). Stratospheric air, sometimes mixed with trapped pollution, was the dominant layer source in all three missions. The larger number of layers per kilometer in PEM-Tropics A was probably due to repeated profiling of several "superlayers" visible in many of the mission lidar and potential vorticity profiles. The thickness of the superlayers was of order 1 km, and the horizontal extent was of order 1000 km. We found that layers have an Important effect on the thermal structure. An example based on ozonesonde data from Tahiti is shown, where a dry, subsiding layer was stabilized by much greater radiative cooling at the base than at the top. The stabilized layer can trap pollution and force vertical plumes to spread into horizontal layers.
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