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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Année : 2000

Vertical short-scale structures in the upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric temperature and ozone at la Réunion Island (20.8°S, 55.3°E)

Philippe Keckhut
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Alain Hauchecorne
Sophie Godin

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The distribution and the nature of vertical short-scale structures observed in ozone and temperature are investigated in the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere at La Reunion Island located in the vicinity of the southern subtropical barrier by using wavelet-based methods. A climatology of dominant wavelike patterns with short vertical wavelengths reveals the presence of localized structures on both the ozone and the temperature perturbations, extracted from ozonesonde and temperature data, up to the middle stratosphere. Some case studies are presented to identify the nature of short-scale structures with 1- to 5-km vertical wavelengths in the troposphere and the stratosphere. A climatology of short-scale structures induced by gravity waves and the horizontal advection shows that short-scale structures are mainly detected in the middle and upper troposphere and in the lower stratosphere. The weak value of the coefficient R(z) that links the ozone and temperature perturbations induced by gravity waves is a major limit to detecting such short-scale structures above 21-km altitude. Some structures with vertical wavelengths ranging from 1 to 5 km are attributed to gravity waves produced by convection in summer and the subtropical jet in winter, or quasi-horizontal large-scale motions from both sides of the subtropical barrier.
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hal-01632983 , version 1 (10-11-2017)

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Fabrice Chane-Ming, Franck Molinaro, Jean Leveau, Philippe Keckhut, Alain Hauchecorne, et al.. Vertical short-scale structures in the upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric temperature and ozone at la Réunion Island (20.8°S, 55.3°E). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2000, 105 (D22), pp.26857-26870. ⟨hal-01632983⟩
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