The impact of subvisible cirrus clouds near the tropical tropopause on stratospheric water vapor

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Jun 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998georl..25.1883r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 25, Issue 11, p. 1883-1886

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Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Stratosphere/Troposphere Interactions, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Middle Atmosphere-Composition And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Theoretical Modeling

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The radiative impact of subvisible cirrus ice clouds at and just below the tropical tropopause has been studied using a zonally averaged interactive chemistry-radiation-dynamics model. Model runs have been performed with and without the inclusion of the radiative heating of these thin ice clouds, and with and without sedimentation. Near-infrared optical depths of 0.005-0.08 were computed for assumed log-normal size distributions of spherical particles having mode radii of 2-10 μm. Particles with 6 μm mode radii have computed scattering ratios of 3-15 at 603 nm, in good agreement with lidar observations. The increased radiative heating of these clouds, 0.1-0.2 K/day, results in temperature increases of 1-2 K and vertical velocity increases of 0.02-0.04 mm/s. As a consequence of the warmer tropopause, lower stratosphere water vapor increases by as much as 1 ppmv. The dehydration resulting from sedimentation was found to be a much smaller effect.

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