Characteristics of tropopause parameters as observed with  GPS  radio occultation

Rieckh, T.; Scherllin-Pirscher, B.; Ladstädter, F.; Foelsche, U.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3947-2014

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26 Nov 2014

Research article |

| 26 Nov 2014

Characteristics of tropopause parameters as observed with GPS radio occultation

T. Rieckh, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, and U. Foelsche

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C1214: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Jun 2014
- AC C2123: 'Response to Reviewer #1 Comments', Therese Rieckh, 12 Aug 2014
RC C1712: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Jul 2014
- AC C2129: 'Response to Reviewer #2 Comments', Therese Rieckh, 12 Aug 2014
EC C2178: 'Editor comment on response to reviewers', Richard Anthes, 14 Aug 2014

Short summary

Radio Occultation (RO) observations featuring high vertical resolution, global availability, and high accuracy were used to investigate global characteristics of the lapse rate tropopause. Climatological tropopause characteristics for the RO record from 2001 to 2013 extend previous studies on tropopause structure and its temporal variability. Latitudinal and longitudinal variations as well as the annual cycle and inter-annual variability were analyzed for the tropopause altitude and temperature.