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STP12 Abstracts<br />

Berlin, 12 - 16 July <strong>2010</strong><br />

SCOSTEP Symposium <strong>2010</strong><br />

Global variability of me<strong>an</strong> age of stratospheric air from MIPAS observations since 2002<br />

Stiller Gabriele 1 , Von Clarm<strong>an</strong>n Thomas 1 , Glatthor Norbert 1 , Funke Bernd 2 , Linden Andrea 1 ,<br />

Grabowski Udo 1 , Hoepfner Michael 1 , Kellm<strong>an</strong>n Sylvia 1 , Kiefer Michael 1 , Lopez-Puertas M<strong>an</strong>uel 2 ,<br />

Wiegele Andreas 1 , Versick Stef<strong>an</strong> 1<br />

1 Karlsruhe <strong>Institut</strong>e of Technology - <strong>Institut</strong>e for Meteorology <strong>an</strong>d Climate Research (KIT - IMK-<br />

ASF), 2 <strong>Institut</strong>o de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA), CSIC, Gr<strong>an</strong>ada, Spain<br />

MIPAS provides spectral information on the atmospheric trace constituent SF6. SF6 is<br />

produced purely <strong>an</strong>thropogenically, <strong>an</strong>d has a pronounced trend in the troposphere of about<br />

0.2 pptv/year (about 3%/year). Since its only atmospheric sink is in the mesosphere, it c<strong>an</strong> be<br />

used to determine the so-called stratospheric me<strong>an</strong> age of air, i.e. the time <strong>an</strong> air parcel needs<br />

to travel from the tropopause to a certain position in the stratosphere. This is a qu<strong>an</strong>tity un<strong>der</strong><br />

vivid discussion currently, since m<strong>an</strong>y climate chemistry models predict <strong>an</strong> intensification of<br />

the Brewer-Dobson circulation due to climate ch<strong>an</strong>ge. This would lead to reduced me<strong>an</strong> age<br />

of air in the stratosphere <strong>an</strong>d impact the stratospheric chemical composition, which would, in<br />

turn, provide feedback on climate ch<strong>an</strong>ge <strong>an</strong>d impact the recovery of the ozone hole.<br />

SF6 <strong>an</strong>d age-of-air global distributions for the full-spectral-resolution period of MIPAS<br />

(September 2002 to March 2004) have already been published (Stiller et al., ACP, 2008).<br />

Here we present global distributions of SF6 for the whole mission lifetime of MIPAS/Envisat<br />

(2002 to present) <strong>an</strong>d <strong>der</strong>ive global distributions of me<strong>an</strong> age of stratospheric air from this<br />

qu<strong>an</strong>tity. We <strong>an</strong>alyse the time series of me<strong>an</strong> age of air in terms of its temporal <strong>an</strong>d spatial<br />

variability for various latitude b<strong>an</strong>ds <strong>an</strong>d link the results to observed <strong>an</strong>d modelled<br />

atmospheric coupling.

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