Planetary boundary influence at the Jungfraujoch analyzed by aerosol cycles and synoptic weather types

Details Planetary boundary influence at the Jungfraujoch analyzed by aerosol cycles and synoptic weather types Planetary boundary influence at the Jungfraujoch analyzed by aerosol cycles and synoptic weather types

Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011acpd...11..985c&link_type=abstract

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2011, pp.985-1024

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Fourteen years of meteorological parameters, aerosol variables (absorption and scattering coefficients, aerosol number concentration) and trace gases (CO, NOx, SO2) measured at the Jungfraujoch (JFJ, 3580 m a.s.l.) have been analyzed as a function of different synoptic weather types. The Alpine Weather Statistics (AWS) classification was used to define the synoptic meteorology over the whole Swiss region. The seasonal contribution of each synoptic weather type to the aerosol concentration was deduced from the aerosol annual cycles while the planetary boundary layer (PBL) influence was estimated by means of the diurnal cycles. Since aerosols are scavenged by precipitation, the diurnal cycle of the CO concentration was also used to identify polluted air masses. SO2 and NOx concentrations were used as precursor tracers for new particle formation and growth. This study confirms the consensus view that the JFJ is mainly influenced by the free troposphere during winter and by injection of air parcels from the PBL during summer. A more detailed picture is, however, drawn where the JFJ is completely influenced by free tropospheric air masses in winter during advective weather types and largely influenced by the PBL also during the night in summer during the subsidence weather type. Between these two extreme situations, the PBL influence at the JFJ depends on both the time of year and the synoptic weather type. The fraction of PBL air transported to the JFJ was estimated by the relative increase of the specific humidity and CO.

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