Summary
The phenomenological theory of “tropopause folding” as associated with the injection of stratospheric tracers into the troposphere during intense cyclogenesis is reexamined in connection with cyclone formation in the Western Mediterranean area. Ozone and radioactivity ground measurements are critically analysed in this respect. Correlation between concentration in the lower troposphere of stratospheric tracers and intense cyclogenesis is shown not to be appreciable beyond 5% cohenrence confidence level, even if visual inspection of both time records and weather maps gives the opposite impression.
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Es wird die phänomenologische Theorie der Tropopausenfaltung in Verbindung mit der Zufuhr von stratosphärischen Tracern in die Troposphäre bei intensiver Zyklogenese im Zusammenhang mit der Zyklonenbildung im westlichen Mittelmeer überprüft. Zu diesem Zwecke wurden in Bodennähe durchgeführte Messungen des Ozons und der Radioaktivität kritisch analysiert. Die Korrelation zwischen der Konzentration der stratosphärischen Tracer in der unteren Troposphäre und einer intensiven Zyklogenese erweist sich als nicht merklich über die 5% Vertrauensgrenze der Kohärenz hinausreichend, wenn auch die visuelle Betrachtung der beiden Zeitreihen und der Wetterkarten den entgegengesetzten Eindruck macht.
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Nanni, T., Speranza, A., Trvisan, A. et al. Precipitation of stratospheric tracers and cyclogenesis in the Western Mediterranean. Arch. Met. Geoph. Biokl. A. 24, 321–328 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02245317
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