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Tropopause and cirrus clouds tops heights

Authors: Lakkis, Susan Gabriela; Canziani, Pablo Osvaldo; Lavorato, Mario Blas;

Tropopause and cirrus clouds tops heights

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Resumen: Las nubes cirrus han atraído recientemente mucha atención debido a su importante rol e impacto en el balance radiativo de la atmósfera. Esto resalta la necesidad de mejorar las mediciones de la atmósfera, a través de por ejemplo, la detección remota que proveen los sistemas lidar (acrónimo del inglés: light Detection and Ranging), con una excelente capacidad para detectar nubes altas y delgadas con mucha precisión. El rango dinámico del lidar de retrodifusión permite analizar la altitud así como la evolución de nubes cirrus en tiempo real. Mediante los perfiles de retrodifusión obtenidos a partir de los cirrus detectados y particularmente de los cirrus de la alta troposfera, es posible analizar la evolución de la tropopausa por medio del análisis del tope de los cirrus, utilizándolos como trazadores de la tropopausa. En el presente trabajo se analizaron 80 casos de cirrus de la tropopausa diurnos, elegidos en forma arbitraria, detectados durante el período 2001-2006, con el objetivo de estimar la altura de la tropopausa y su evolución temporal. Esta contribución presenta los primeros resultados preliminares de la comparación de las alturas detectadas por medio de un sistema lidar local y las alturas de la tropopausa obtenidas a partir de radiosondeos locales. Los resultados muestran que estos cirrus pueden considerarse como trazadores de la tropopausa, con un error típico inferior a 1 km.

Abstract: Cirrus clouds have recently garnered much attention due to their important role and impact on the atmospheric radiative balance. This stresses the need for active remote sensing such as lidar, whose capability to perceive high and optically thin cirrus makes it one of the most accurate systems for cirri study. The dynamic range of backscatter lidar signals enable to measure the altitude as well as the evolution of cirrus clouds in real time. By means of the retrievals profiles of the cirrus clouds parameters derived from lidar (light Detection and Ranging) system, particularly of those close to the upper troposphere, it is possible to analyze the evolution of tropopause layer using the top of cirrus clouds present as a tropopause tracer. A random selected dataset of 80 diurnal tropopause cirrus clouds collected during 2001-2006 were analyzed in order to estimate tropopause height and its temporal evolution with the altitude of the cirrus tops. We present here the preliminary results of the comparison between the cirrus top altitudes measured by lidar and the tropopause altitudes derived from rawinsonde data. Results show that cirrus tops can be viewed as tropopause tracers with an accuracy close to 1km.

Fil: Lakkis, Susan Gabriela. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Equipo Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Procesos Atmosféricos en el Cambio Global; Argentina

Fil: Canziani, Pablo O. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Equipo Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Procesos Atmosféricos en el Cambio Global; Argentina

Fil: Lavorato, Mario. Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas para la Defensa. Departamento de Investigaciones en Láseres y sus aplicaciones. División Radar Laser; Argentina

Fil: Lavorato, Mario. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional de Haedo. Grupo Tecnologías Aplicadas al Medio Ambiente; Argentina

Fil: Lakkis, Susan Gabriela. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina

Fil: Canziani, Pablo O. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina

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LIDAR, Diurnal tropopause cirrus, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5, tropopause, NUBES CIRRUS, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1, lidar, TROPOPAUSA

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