Recent Publications (Reversed Chronological Order)
 
THORPEX related papers
Dörnbrack, A., M. Weissmann, S. Rahm, R. Simmet, O. Reitebuch, R. Busen, and H. Olafsson, Wind Lidar Observations in the Lee of Greenland, Extended Abstract, AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology, June 2004. [download pdf]
Weissmann, M., R. Busen, A. Dörnbrack, S. Rahm, and O. Reitebuch, Targeted Observations with an airborne wind lidar, J. Atmos. Ocean. Techn., 22, 1706-1719, 2005. [download pdf]

Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Kivi, R. and A. Dörnbrack, Stratospheric Dehydration above Sodankylä, Geophysical Res. Lett., submitted, 2006. [download pdf]
de la Torre Juarez, M., A. Dörnbrack, G. A. Hajj, B. A. Iijima, R. Kivi, A. J. Mannucci, and T. M. Schroder, Observational estimates air mass with temperatures conducive to arctic polar stratospheric clouds, re-submitted to JGR 2005. [download pdf]
Maturilli, M. and A. Dörnbrack, Polar Stratospheric Ice Cloud above Spitsbergen, J. Geophysical Res., Vol. 111, No. D18, D18210,10.1029/2005JD006967, 2006. [download pdf]
D. Lowe, A. R. MacKenzie, H. Schlager, C. Voigt, A. Dörnbrack, M. J. Mahoney, F. Cairo, Liquid particle composition and heterogeneous reactions in a mountain wave Polar Stratospheric Cloud, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 3611-3623, 2006. [download pdf]
Eckermann, S. D., A. Dörnbrack, S. B. Vosper, H. Flentje, M. J. Mahoney, T. P. Bui, and K. S. Carslaw, Mountain wave-induced polar stratospheric cloud forecasts for aircraft science flights during SOLVE/THESEO 2000, Weather and Forecasting, 21, 42-68, 2006. [download pdf]
Voigt, C., H. Schlager, B. P. Luo, A. Dörnbrack, A. Roiger, P. Stock, J. Curtius, H. Vössing, S. Borrmann, S. Davies, P. Konopka, C. Schiller, G. Shur, and T. Peter: Nitric Acid Trihydrate (NAT) formation at low NAT supersaturation in Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 1371-1380, 2005. [download pdf]
Kühl, S., A. Dörnbrack, W. Wilms-Grabe, B.-M. Sinnhuber, U. Platt, and T. Wagner, Observational evidence of rapid chlorine activation by stratospheric mountain waves above Northern Scandinavia, JGR 109, D22309, doi:10.1029/2004JD004797, 2004. [download pdf]
Reichardt, J., A. Dörnbrack, S. Reichardt, P. Yang, and T. J. McGee, Mountain wave PSC dynamics and microphysics from ground-based lidar measurements and meteorological modeling, ACP, 4, 1149-1165, 2004. [download pdf]
Deshler, T., N. Larsen. C. Weisser, J. Schreiner, K. Mauersberger, F. Cairo, A. Adriani, G. Di Donfrancesco, J. Ovarlez, H. Ovarlez, U. Blum, K. H. Fricke, and A. Dörnbrack, Large nitric acid particles at the top of an Arctic stratospheric cloud. JGR 108(D16), 4517, doi:10.1029/2003JD003479, 2003. [download pdf]
Schreiner, J., C. Voigt, C. Weisser, A. Kohlmann, K. Mauersberger, T. Deshler, C. Kröger, J. Rosen, N. Kjome, N. Larsen, F. Cairo, A. Adriani, G. Di Donfrancesco, J. Ovarlez, H. Ovarlez, and A. Dörnbrack, Chemical, microphysical, and optical properties of polar stratospheric clouds. JGR 108(D5), 8313, doi:10.1029/2001JD000825, 2003. [download pdf]
Birner, T., A. Dörnbrack, and T. Schoenemeyer, Mountain-wave induced polar stratospheric clouds. TerraFLOPS, Issue Number 3 - October 2002. free accessible at [DKRZ homepage]
Bevilacqua, R. M., M. D. Fromm, J. M. Alfred, J. S. Hornstein, G. E. Nedoluha, K. W. Hoppel, J. D. Lumpe, C. E. Randall, E. P. Shettle, E. V. Browell, C. Butler, A. Dörnbrack, and A. W. Strawa, Observations and analysis of polar stratospheric clouds detected by POAM III during the 1999/2000 Northern Hemisphere winter. JGR 107(D20), 8281, doi:10.1029/2001JD000477, 2002. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A., T. Birner, A. Fix, H. Flentje, A. Meister, H. Schmid, E. V. Browell, and M. J. Mahoney, Evidence for inertia gravity waves forming polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia. JGR 107(D20), 8287, doi:10.1029/2001JD000452, 2002. [download pdf]
Hertzog, A., F. Vial, A. Dörnbrack, S. D. Eckermann, B. M. Knudsen, and J.-P. Pommereau, In situ observations of gravity waves and comparisons with numerical simulations during the SOLVE/THESEO 2000 campaign. JGR 107(D20), 8292, doi:10.1029/2001JD001025, 2002. [download pdf]
Schiller, C., R. Bauer, F. Cairo, T. Deshler, A. Dörnbrack, J. Elkins, A. Engel, H. Flentje, N. Larsen, I. Levin, M. Müller, S. Oltmans, H. Ovarlez, J. Ovarlez, J. Schreiner, F. Stroh, C. Voigt, and H. Vömel, Dehydration in the Arctic stratosphere during the SOLVE/THESEO-2000 campaigns. JGR 107(D20), 8293, doi:10.1029/2001JD000463, 2002. [download pdf]
Flentje, H., A. Dörnbrack, A. Fix, A. Meister, H. Schmid, S. Flüglistaler, B. Luo, and T. Peter, Denitrification inside the stratospheric vortex in the winter of 1999-2000 by sedimentation of large nitric acid trihydrate particles. JGR 107(D16), doi:10.1029/2001JD001015, 2002. [download pdf]
Kivi, R., E. Kyrö, A. Dörnbrack, and T. Birner, Observations of vertically thick polar stratospheric clouds and record low temperature in the Arctic vortex. GRL 28(19), 3661-3664, 2001. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A. and M. Leutbecher, Relevance of mountain waves for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia: A 20 year climatology. JGR 106(D2), 1583-1593, 2001. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A., M. Leutbecher, J. Reichardt, A. Behrendt, K.-P. Müller, and G. Baumgarten, Relevance of mountain wave cooling over Scandinavia: Mesoscale dynamics and observations for January 1997. JGR 106(D2), 1569-1581, 2001. [download pdf]
Voigt, C., A. Tsias, A. Dörnbrack, S. Meilinger, B. Luo, J. Schreiner, N. Larsen, K. Mauersberger, and T. Peter, Non-equilibrium compositions of polar stratospheric clouds in gravity waves. GRL 27(23), 3873-3876, 2000. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A., M. Leutbecher, R. Kivi, and E. Kyrö, Mountain wave induced record low stratospheric temperatures above northern Scandinavia. Tellus A, 51, 951-963, 1999. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A., M. Leutbecher, H. Volkert, and M. Wirth, Mesoscale forecasts of stratospheric mountain waves. Meteorol. Appl., 5 117-126, 1998. [download pdf]
 
 
Water Vapor in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Flentje. H, A. Dörnbrack, G. Ehret, and A. Fix: Validation of ECMWF water vapor analyses by airborne DIAL measurements in tropical regions, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2005. [download pdf]
Flentje. H, A. Dörnbrack, G. Ehret, A. Fix, C. Kiemle, G. Poberaj, and M. Wirth, Water vapor heterogeneity related to tropopause folds over the North Atlantic revealed by airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D03115, doi:10.1029/2004JD004957, 2005. [download pdf]
Spichtinger, P., Gierens, K., and A. Dörnbrack, Formation of ice supersaturation by mesoscale gravity waves, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5, 1243-1255, 2005. [download pdf]
 
 
Tropopause
Birner, T., A. Dörnbrack, U. Schumann, How sharp is the tropopause at midlatitudes? GRL 29(14), doi:10.1029/2002GL015142, 2002. [download pdf]
 
 
Miscellaneous (numerics, gravity waves, convection)
Dörnbrack, A., J. D. Doyle, T. P. Lane, R. D. Sharman, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, On physical realizability and uncertainty of numerical solutions. Atmospheric Science Letters, 6, 118-122, 2005. [download pdf]
Preusse, P., A. Dörnbrack, S. D. Eckermann, M. Riese, B. Schaeler, J. T. Bacmeister, D. Broutman, and K. U. Grossmann, Space-based measurements of stratospheric mountain waves by CRISTA, 1. Sensitivity, analysis method, and a case study. JGR 107(D23), 8178, doi:10.1029/2001JD000699, 2002. [download pdf]
Doyle, J. D., H. Volkert, A. Dörnbrack, K. P. Hoinka, and T. F. Hogan, Aircraft measurements and numerical simulations of mountain waves over the central Alps: A pre-MAP test case. QJ 128, 2175-2184, 2002. [download pdf]
Schumann, U., A. Dörnbrack, and B. Meyer, Cloud shadow effects on the structure of the convective boundary layer. Met. Zeitschrift 11, 285-294, 2002. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A. and T. Dürbeck, Turbulent dispersion of aircraft exhausts in regions of breaking gravity waves. Atmospheric Environment 32, 3105-3112, 1998. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A., Turbulent mixing by breaking gravity waves. J. Fluid Mech. 375, 113-141, 1998. [download pdf]
Dörnbrack, A. and C. J. Nappo, A note on the application of linear wave theory at a critical level. Bound. Layer Meteorology 82, 399-416, 1997. [download pdf]
Birner, T. and A. Dörnbrack, Large-Amplitude Stratospheric Gravity Waves. Poster presented at the AMS Mountain Meteorology Conference in Park City, Utah, June 2002. [download gziped ps]
 
 

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