Tropopause altitude determination from temperature profile measurements of reduced vertical resolution

König, Nils; Braesicke, Peter; von Clarmann, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4113-2019

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

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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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RC1: 'An important analysis', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer 1', Thomas von Clarmann, 29 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review of "Tropopause altitude determination from temperature profiles of reduced altitude resolution" by K\"onig et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 2', Thomas von Clarmann, 29 Apr 2019

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AR by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased) on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 May 2019) by Lars Hoffmann

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Jun 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Jun 2019) by Lars Hoffmann

AR by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased) on behalf of the Authors (19 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (26 Jun 2019) by Lars Hoffmann

AR by Thomas von Clarmann (deceased) on behalf of the Authors (08 Jul 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

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.