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Pavelin et al. 2002
Pavelin, E., Whiteway, J.A., Busen, R. and Hacker, J. (2002). Airborne observations of turbulence, mixing, and gravity waves in the tropopause region. Journal of Geophysical Research 107: doi: 10.1029/2001JD000775. issn: 0148-0227.

In situ observations of small-scale dynamics and compositional structure in the tropopause region are presented. The measurements were made aboard the Grob Egrett high-altitude research aircraft above Aberystwyth, Wales, in the summer of 2000. The observations presented here show evidence of mixing of ozone and water vapor in a patch of intense turbulence just above the tropopause. This turbulence is shown to be the result of wind shear above a tropospheric jet stream. The value of the vertical eddy diffusion coefficient in this turbulence is estimated to be 0.9 m2 s-1. It is also shown that wavelike perturbations superimposed on the overall tracer structure can be accounted for by a gravity wave.

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Turbulence, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Stratosphere/troposphere interactions, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere--constituent transport and chemistry, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Waves and tides
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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