Probing Hurricanes with Stable Isotopes of Rain and Water Vapor

Gedzelman, Stanley David; Lawrence, J. R.; Gamache, John F.; Black, Mark M.; Hindman, Edward E.; Black, Roger W.; Dunion, Jason; Willoughby, H. E.; Zhang, Xiaoping

doi:10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1112:phwsio>2.0.co;2

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“…Tropical cyclones are dynamic systems and factors affecting their precipitation and isotopic compositions, such as the location and intensity of rainfall, change throughout the life of the storm (23,24). The tree ring isotope proxy captures only a point in the time and space of the storm event.…”

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Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

Miller¹,

Mora²,

Grissino-Mayer

et al. 2006

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

Miller¹,

Mora²,

Grissino-Mayer

et al. 2006

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Water vapour isotopologic ratio measurements act as tracers providing information on cyclones, storms and hurricanes, like structure, evolution, microphysics or water budget Lawrence et al, 2003). Unfortunately these measurements are generally limited to rain and vapour collected at the surface or during flights (Lawrence et al, 1996(Lawrence et al, , 1998(Lawrence et al, , 2002Gedzelman et al, 2003).…”

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“…Water vapour is the most important atmospheric trace gas and a key compound of the global climate (Ciais et al, 2004;Gedzelman et al, 2003;Hartmann, 2002;Lawrence et al, 2002;Smith, 1992). It plays an important role in many atmospheric processes, such as radiative transfer, circulation dynamics Hanisco et al, 2007;Kuang et al, 2003;Johnson et al, 2001;Moyer et al, 1996), stratospheric chemistry (Steinwagner et al, 2007;Rosenlof et al, 2001Rosenlof et al, , 2003McCarthy et al, 2004;Franz et al, 2005;Coffey et al, 2006), cloud formation (Schmidt et al, 2005), precipitation (Bowen and Revenaugh, 2003) and the greenhouse effect (Schneider et al, 1999;Hartmann, 2002).…”

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H<sub>2</sub><sup>16</sup>O and HDO measurements with IASI/MetOp

et al. 2009

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Abstract.In this paper we analyze distributions of water vapour isotopologues in the troposphere using infrared spectra recorded by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), which operates onboard the Metop satellite in nadir geometry. The simultaneous uncorrelated retrievals of H 16 2 O and HDO are performed on radiance measurements using a line-by-line radiative transfer model and an inversion procedure based on the Optimal Estimation Method (OEM). The characterizations of the retrieved products in terms of vertical sensitivity and error budgets show that IASI measurements contain up to 6 independent pieces of information on the vertical distribution of H 16 2 O and up to 3.5 for HDO from the surface up to the upper troposphere (0-20 km). Although the purpose of the paper is not validation, a restricted comparison with sonde measurements shows that the retrieved H 16 2 O profiles capture the seasonal/latitudinal variations of the water content, with good accuracy in the lowest layer but with larger uncertainties higher in the free and upper troposphere. Our results then demonstrate the ability of the IASI instrument to monitor atmospheric isotopologic water vapour distributions and to provide information on the partitioning of HDO as compared to H 16 2 O. The derivation of the δ D is challenging and associated with large errors in the uncorrelated retrieval approach chosen here. As a result averaging on the vertical to produce a column-averaged δ D is required to produce meaningful results for geophysical interpretation. As a case study, we analyse concentration

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“…Sinclair et al [2011] Circulatory distillation Where intense circulation of low-pressure systems (such as intense lows and tropical cyclones) act as a fractionation chamber to create highly depleted isotopic signatures of precipitation. [1996], Gedzelman et al [2003], and Nott et al [2007] Origin or synoptic This is a function of numerous factors including the isotopic characteristics of the (predominantly) oceanic source for the evaporated moisture which shows a strong global variability and association with sea surface temperature (SST) and the atmospheric (synoptic) circulation patterns which control the moisture pathway to a precipitation location and result in some of the mechanisms described above due to evaporation-and condensation-related fractionation processes along the moisture pathway. Guan et al [2013] Despite this work, little is known about the potential influence of various synoptic weather systems, moisture sources, and variability on the stable isotopic signatures of precipitation events in more complex mountain terrain such as the Australian Alps.…”

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Drivers of precipitation stable oxygen isotope variability in an alpine setting, Snowy Mountains, Australia

Callow

McGowan

Warren

et al. 2014

J. Geophys. Res. Atmos.

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Natural archives that preserve a stable isotopic signature are routinely used to reconstruct palaeoenvironmental conditions. Isotopic values of precipitation are known to be influenced by factors such as the amount and type of precipitation, moisture pathway, landscape and terrain factors, and processes associated with precipitation formation and deposition. This study investigates oxygen isotopic variability using real-time rain and snow precipitation data from a moderate altitude (<2250 m above sea level), Southern Hemisphere alpine environment, where the causes of isotopic variability are largely unknown. Previous research at Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation sites skewed toward rain precipitation, low-altitude, predominantly coastal locations identified amount effects as the dominant explanation of isotopic variability in southern Australia. This study based on within-and between-event real-time sampling finds that the origin of moisture and terrain effects are the dominant cause of isotopic variability in this alpine region, with little evidence of amount effects. Rainfall that originated from similar Southern Ocean latitudes showed a consistent (moderate) isotopic signature (δ ) were found also. These results have significant implications for understanding atmospheric drivers of isotopic variability from which oxygen isotope-based palaeoclimate reconstruction is informed in regions with complex topography and geographically diverse moisture pathways such as the Australian Alps.

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Probing Hurricanes with Stable Isotopes of Rain and Water Vapor

Cited by 99 publications

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Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

H<sub>2</sub><sup>16</sup>O and HDO measurements with IASI/MetOp

Drivers of precipitation stable oxygen isotope variability in an alpine setting, Snowy Mountains, Australia

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Probing Hurricanes with Stable Isotopes of Rain and Water Vapor

Cited by 99 publications

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Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;16&lt;/sup&gt;O and HDO measurements with IASI/MetOp

Drivers of precipitation stable oxygen isotope variability in an alpine setting, Snowy Mountains, Australia

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