Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4113-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4113-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
Research article
 | 
29 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 29 Jul 2019

Tropopause altitude determination from temperature profile measurements of reduced vertical resolution

Nils König, Peter Braesicke, and Thomas von Clarmann

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MIPAS temperature averaging kernels T. von Clarmann, M. Höpfner, S. Kellmann, A. Linden, B. Funke, U. Grabowski, N. Glatthor, M. Kiefer, and G. P. Stiller https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000096828

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Inference of the tropopause from temperature profiles of finite vertical resolution entails an uncertainty of the tropopause altitude. We assess this effect by degrading the resolution of the sonde data. The tropopause altitude inferred from coarse grid profiles was found to be lower than that inferred from the original profiles for tropical and midlatitudinal radiosonde profiles. The mean displacement of the lapse rate tropopause inferred from a 3 km resolution profile is −400 m for Hilo.
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