RADIATIVE HEATING RATES DURING THE AIRBORNE ARCTIC STRATOSPHERIC EXPERIMENT

A radiative transfer model and observed temperature and ozone profiles are used to compute three dimensional fields of heating rates for the Northern Hemisphere during the 1989 Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Experiment. For a clear atmosphere, an average cooling of 0.2 to 0.4 K/day is computed in the regions of the ER‐2 aircraft during flight days. Tropospheric clouds will increase the cooling by 0.1 to 0.2 K/day. These cooling rates are in good agreement with the diabatic cooling estimated from N2O data. Net heating rather than cooling is computed in tie area of the ozone “minihole” which had its maximum on 1/31/89 and 2/1/89 in the vicinity of the mission. On 1/31/89 the 50 and 30 mb net heating rates are 0.1 to 0.2 K/day for clear skies, and 0.05 to 0.1 K/day for cloudy skies. Copyright 1990 by the American Geophysical Union.