The signature of the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation in tropospheric clouds

Li, Ying and Thompson, David W. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5413-4376 (2013) The signature of the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation in tropospheric clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118 (9). pp. 3486-3494. ISSN 2169-897X

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Abstract

The signature of the stratospheric Brewer‒Dobson circulation (BDC) in tropospheric cloudiness is investigated in CloudSat and CALIPSO data from June 2006 through April 2011. During the Northern Hemisphere winter, periods of enhanced stratospheric wave driving are associated with increased cloud incidence in the tropical tropopause transition layer (TTL) juxtaposed against decreased cloud incidence in the Arctic troposphere. The results are consistent with the physical linkages between (1) the BDC and near‒tropopause temperature and (2) near‒tropopause temperature and upper tropospheric cloud incidence. The key finding of the work is that changes in the stratospheric circulation not only influence cloud amounts in the troposphere but also that they do so in a coupled manner that links climate variability in the Arctic and upper tropical troposphere. The results provide a pathway through which stratospheric processes influence tropospheric climate that is in addition to stratosphere/troposphere dynamical coupling.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Related URLs:	https://publons.com/publon/5036302/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Jun 2022 13:30
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2023 05:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/85396
DOI:	10.1002/JGRD.50339

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