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Temperature variability and trends in the UT-LS over a subtropical site: Reunion (20.8° S, 55.5° E) |
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N. Bègue, H. Bencherif, V. Sivakumar, G. Kirgis, N. Mze, J. Leclair de Bellevue |
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Englisch
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1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 10, no. 17 ; Nr. 10, no. 17 (2010-09-13), S.8563-8574 |
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250008769
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/acp-10-8563-2010.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| This paper mainly focuses on the trends and variability of the UT-LS
temperature using radiosonde observations carried out over 16 years (January
1993 to December 2008) from a southern subtropical site, Reunion
(20.8° S, 55.5° E), using a linear-regression fitting model. Two kinds of
tropopause definitions, namely, cold point tropopause (CPT) and lapse rate
tropopause (LRT) are used. In order to characterize and quantify the
relationship between regional oceanic forcing and temperature at UT-LS, we
took into account the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) for the estimation of
temperature trends. Results show that the main component is the Annual Cycle
(AC), particularly at tropopause (CPT, LRT) and in the lower stratosphere
(LS) where more than 26.0±2.4% of temperature variability can be
explained by AC. The influence of IOD on the variability of the temperature
is at highest ratio at CPT and LS, with respectively 12.3±7.3% and
13.1±5.9%. The correlations between IOD and temperature anomalies
at UT-LS are barely significant, which are found to be in close agreement
with the results obtained by Rosenlof et al. (2008) over the western
tropical Pacific Ocean. The temperature trend in the LS reveals a cooling of
about −0.90±0.40 K per decade. The cooling trend at LS is found to be
in close agreement with the others studies. Trend estimates in the LS
suggest that IOD forcing contributes to increasing cooling by about
0.16±0.05 K per decade. Past works have shown that the additional carbon
dioxide increase has a minor effect in the LS, and suggested that other
effects than ozone and carbon dioxide changes have to be considered, in
order to explain the observed temperature changes in the LS. From this
study, we can suggest that the SST changes can be considered also, in
addition to effects due to ozone and carbon dioxide changes, in order to
explain the observed temperature changes in the LS. As a consequence, our
results support the assumption that the Indian Ocean may have a slight
impact on temperature variability and on temperature change in the LS over
Reunion. |
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