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DOI	10.5194/acp-19-4659-2019
	On the fine vertical structure of the low troposphere over the coastal margins of East Antarctica
	Vignon E.; Traullé O.; Berne A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	16807316
起始页码	4659
结束页码	4683
卷号	19 期号:7
英文摘要	In this study, 8 years of high-resolution radiosonde data at nine Antarctic stations are analysed to provide the first large-scale characterization of the fine vertical structure of the low troposphere up to 3 km altitude over the coastal margins of East Antarctica. Radiosonde data show a large spatial variability of wind, temperature and humidity profiles, with different features between stations in katabatic regions (e.g., Dumont d'Urville and Mawson stations), stations over two ice shelves (Neumayer and Halley stations) and regions with complex orography (e.g., McMurdo). At the Dumont d'Urville, Mawson and Davis stations, the yearly median wind speed profiles exhibit a clear low-level katabatic jet. During precipitation events, the low-level flow generally remains of continental origin and its speed is even reinforced due to the increase in the continent-ocean pressure gradient. Meanwhile, the relative humidity profiles show a dry low troposphere, suggesting the occurrence of low-level sublimation of precipitation in katabatic regions but such a phenomenon does not appreciably occur over the ice shelves near Halley and Neumayer. Although ERA-Interim and ERA5 reanalyses assimilate radiosoundings at most stations considered here, substantial - and sometimes large - low-level wind and humidity biases are revealed but ERA5 shows overall better performance. A free simulation with the regional polar version of the Weather Research and Forecasting model (Polar WRF) (at a 35 km resolution) over the entire continent shows too-strong and too-shallow near-surface jets in katabatic regions especially in winter. This may be a consequence of an underestimated coastal cold air bump and associated sea-continent pressure gradient force due to the coarse 35 km resolution of the Polar WRF simulation. Beyond documenting the vertical structure of the low troposphere over coastal East Antarctica, this study gives insights into the reliability and accuracy of two major reanalysis products in this region on the Earth. The paper further underlines the difficulty of modeling the low-level flow over the margins of the ice sheet with a state-of-the-art atmospheric model. © Author(s) 2019.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	coastal zone; ice shelf; precipitation (climatology); radiosonde; relative humidity; spatial variation; troposphere; wind velocity; Antarctica; East Antarctica
来源期刊	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/144505
作者单位	Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (LTE), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; DSO-DOA, Météo France, Toulouse, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vignon E.,Traullé O.,Berne A.. On the fine vertical structure of the low troposphere over the coastal margins of East Antarctica[J],2019,19(7).
APA	Vignon E.,Traullé O.,&Berne A..(2019).On the fine vertical structure of the low troposphere over the coastal margins of East Antarctica.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,19(7).
MLA	Vignon E.,et al."On the fine vertical structure of the low troposphere over the coastal margins of East Antarctica".Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19.7(2019).