NASA NTRS · 19870001183
Strat-trop exchange
Abstract
Exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere is important to the chemical composition of both regions. The export of ozone from the stratosphere provides the troposphere with a means of initiating photochemistry. The precursor molecules originating from the planetary surface provide the stratosphere with its chemical feedstock from which the ozone-controlling HO(x), NO(x), and Cl(x) photochemistries are driven. The tropopause is defined both statistically and in a local, synoptic sense by the value P(sub theta) = .000016 K sq m/kg/s, taken from an objective analysis of 8 years of zonal, temporal mean cross sections of potential temperature, wind and potential vorticity.
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Tuck, A. F., Browell, E. V., Danielsen, E. F., Holton, J. R., Kley, D., Krueger, A. J., Megie, G., Newell, R. E., Vaughan, G., Hoskins, B. J.. 1985-01-01. Strat-trop exchange. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19870001183
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