Interest in stratospheric aerosol and its role in climate have increased over the last decade
due to the observed increase in stratospheric aerosol since 2000 and the potential for …

Observations of temperature, winds, and atmospheric trace gases suggest that the transition
from troposphere to stratosphere occurs in a layer, rather than at a sharp “tropopause.” In the …

Tropical climate and the composition of the global upper atmosphere are affected by the
tropical tropopause layer—the atmospheric transition zone between the well-mixed …

The Asian summer monsoon anticyclone (ASMA) is a major meteorological system of the
upper troposphere–lower stratosphere (UTLS) during boreal summer. It is known to contain …

Dehydration at the tropical cold point tropopause primarily controls the entry value of water
vapor to the stratosphere, with additional (uncertain) contributions from subtropical …

The strongest supercell thunderstorms typically feature an above-anvil cirrus plume (AACP),
which is a plume of ice and water vapor in the lower stratosphere that occurs downwind of …

The Asian monsoon anticyclone (AMA) represents one of the wettest regions in the lower
stratosphere (LS) and is a key contributor to the global annual maximum in LS water vapour …

The strong and unusual El Niño of 2015–2016 produced a remarkable perturbation to the
hydrologic budget of the tropical tropopause layer (14–19 km). This region regulates …

Domain filling, forward trajectory calculations are used to examine the global dehydration
processes that control stratospheric water vapor. As with most Lagrangian models of this …

The impact of convection on the humidity and clouds in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL)
during boreal summer 2007 is investigated in simulations of detailed cloud microphysical …