[A-AS02] Large-scale moisture and organized cloud systems

[AAS02-08] Characteristics of the Tropical Tropopause Inversion Layer using High-Resolution Temperature Profiles by COSMIC GPS-RO

*Noersomadi Noersomadi¹, Toshitaka Tsuda², Masatomo Fujiwara³ (1.Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Japan; National Institute of Aeronautic and Space, Indonesia , 2.Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Japan; Research Organization and Information System, Tokyo, Japan, 3.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Keywords:COSMIC, GPS-RO, Full Spectrum Inversion, Tropopause Inversion Layer

This study focuses on the sharp variations of the temperature structure near the cold point tropopause (CPT), which is called the tropopause inversion layer (TIL). We analyze the height variations of the Brunt-Väisälä frequency squared (N²) from the vertical gradient of the temperature data retrieved from the COSMIC GPS-RO in 2007-2016 using the Full Spectrum Inversion (cosmicfsi), which has the vertical resolution of about 0.1 km. This study describes new definition of tropical TIL utilizing high resolution of cosmicfsi that able to delineate the thin layer of static stability near tropopause. We examine the statistical distribution of the TIL parameters; such as S-aCPT, which is the difference between the maximum N² above CPT (maxN²) and N² at CPT, and S-bCPT, the difference between the minimum N² below CPT (minN²) and N² at CPT, the height difference distance for maxN² and minN² relative to CPT (dH-aCPT and dH-bCPT). The mean values of S-aCPT and S-bCPT are 6.2 × 10⁻⁴ s⁻² and 4.0 × 10⁻⁴ s⁻², respectively, and the standard deviation of S-aCPT is approximately three times larger than that for S-bCPT. The mean and standard deviation of both dH-aCPT and dH-bCPT are 0.4 ± 0.2 km and 0.5 ± 0.2 km, respectively. We find S-aCPT reached up to > 10 × 10⁻⁴ s⁻² from its random frequency distribution and dH-aCPT was mostly < 0.5 km, indicating a very sharp thermal gradient due to very low temperature. We also discuss the TIL depth (dH) which is defined as height difference at N² equal to 80% of maxN².