A41O:
Processes Controlling Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere Composition and Structure IV

Session ID#: 2503

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3006 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Ross J Salawitch, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD, United States and Troy D Thornberry, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  Ross J Salawitch, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Troy D Thornberry, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Neil Richard Peter Harris, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Neil Richard Peter Harris, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0341 Middle atmosphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Transport of Air to the Stratosphere: Perspectives From the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) Instrument. (Invited) (5387)
Nathaniel J Livesey1, Michelle L Santee2, Gloria L Manney3, Michael J Schwartz4, William George Read4, Alyn Lambert5, Jessica L Neu4 and Lucien Froidevaux4, (1)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NorthWest Research Associates, Inc, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
The Flushing of the Northern Lower Stratosphere and the Influence of the Monsoon: Results from Tacts/Esmval 2012 (8394)
Peter Michael Hoor1, Stefan Mueller2, Heiko Bozem2, Horst Fischer3, Ellen Gute4, Andreas Engel5, Harald Boenisch6, Timo Keber7, Andreas Zahn8, Martina Krämer9, Hans Schlager10, Heini Wernli11 and Baerbel Vogel12, (1)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany, (2)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (5)Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Frankfurt, Germany, (6)Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for ATmospheric and Environmental Science, Frankfurt, Germany, (7)Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (8)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (9)Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany, (10)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (11)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (12)Forschungszentrum Jülich, IEK-7, Jülich, Germany
Rossby-wave driven stirring of the UTLS - a detailed view on the intricately layered structure by the 3-D imaging limb-sounder GLORIA (12442)
Joern Ungermann1, Felix Friedl-Vallon2, Michael Hopfner2, Hermann Oelhaf2, Peter Preusse3, Martin Riese3 and The GLORIA Team, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Stratosphere, Jülich, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Age Spectra and Transport Rates in the UTLS over the Tropics and the North American Monsoon Region (19683)
Jasna Vellovic Pittman1, Steven C Wofsy2, Bruce C Daube3, John Budney1, Roisin Commane1, Jakob Lindaas1, Kathryn McKain1, Jenna Samra4, Gregory Santoni1, Maryann R Sargent5, Jessica B Smith6, James G Anderson6, Ru-Shan Gao7, Andrew W Rollins8,9, Troy D Thornberry8,10, Laurel A Watts8,11, Eric J Hintsa10,12, Fred L Moore10,12, James W Elkins10, Arlyn Andrews10, Elliot L Atlas13, Maria A Navarro14, Tao Wang15,16 and Andrew E Dessler17, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (4)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Colorado / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Colorado / CIRES, Boulder, United States, (13)University of Miami, Miami, United States, (14)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (15)Texas A & M University, College Station, United States, (16)JPL / Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (17)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Impact of Deep Convection on UTLS Composition -New Observations from Recent Airborne Field Studies (Invited) (4734)
Laura Pan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling, Boulder, United States and Science Teams of CONTRAST and SEAC4RS Campaigns
Determination of stratospheric and anthropogenic contributions to enhanced mid-tropospheric O3 in the tropical western Pacific (15476)
Daniel C Anderson1, Julie M Nicely1, Ross J Salawitch2, Russell R Dickerson1, Timothy P Canty3, Thomas F Hanisco4, Glenn Wolfe4, Eric C Apel5, Elliot L Atlas6, Teresa Lynn Campos7, Rebecca S Hornbrook8, Douglas Edward Kinnison9, Laura Pan10, William John Randel11, Daniel D Riemer12 and Andrew John Weinheimer13, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Miami, Miami, United States, (7)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (9)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling, Boulder, United States, (11)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (13)NCAR, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Using Long-Term Observations of VOCs from the CARIBIC Observatory to Refine Understanding of Transport and Chemistry in the UT/LS (21762)
Angela Kathleen Haar1, Ute R Thorenz1, Carina Sauvage1, Hella Riede1, Taku Umezawa1, Jonathan Williams1, Andreas Zahn2 and Carl A M Brenninkmeijer1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Fast Transport from Southeast Asia Boundary Layer Sources to Northern Europe: Rapid Uplift in Typhoons and Eastward Eddy Shedding of the Asian Monsoon Anticyclone (22152)
Rolf Mueller1, Baerbel Vogel2, Gebhard Guenther2, Jens-Uwe Grooss3, Peter Michael Hoor4, Martina Krämer1, Stefan Mueller5, Andreas Zahn6 and Martin Riese3, (1)Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany, (2)Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, Germany, (3)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (4)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany, (5)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany