1. UTLS Water Vapor and Ozone Measurements in Kunming during Asian Summer Monsoon
Jianchun BIAN, and Hongbin CHEN
LAGEO, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Holger Vömel
GRUAN Lead Center, Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg, German Weather Service
Laura Pan
ACD/NCAR
UTLS Workshop, Boulder,

2. Outlines
Overview
Large scale conditions
Profiles
Summary

3. Overview
Asian anticyclone is the dominant circulation feature in the UTLS during NH summer. Asian monsoon is a critical factor in the global troposphere-to-stratosphere transport. It has significant impact on UTLS water vapor budget , and is also an efficient transport pathway for anthropogenic emissions to get into the stratosphere 
Many studies used satellite data and models, which do not provide enough details for characterizing the transport process. There is a debate on the roles of convective and synoptic processes in the TST of water vapor
We are presenting the first in situ measurements of ozone/water vapor inside the anticyclone, the data providing information on the structure and strength of the circulation, complements the large scale satellite observations

4. Kunming (25.01ºN, ºE, km) H
Launch site

5. Westerly
Easterly

6. Participants Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
Kunming Climate Observatory, CMA
Holger Vömel
ACD/NCAR

7. Instruments CFH: H2O RS80: T, RH, P GPS: wind ECC O3 sonde: O3
L-Band: T, RH, P, wind for intercomparison

8. Summary of sounding information (Aug 7-13, 2009)
A total of eleven soundings were launched.
No.
Launch Time (Beijing local time)
GTS RS80
Burst Altitude (km)
GTS RS80 1
:02:05 A
33.11 2*
:11:00
:11:00 H
30.49 3*
:02:24
:02:24 A
31.15 4
:15:47
:04:02 A
33.28
33.72 5*
:12:32
:12:32 H
31.96 6
:15:13
:04:09 A
36.95
34.98 7*
:06:10
:06:10 A
33.15 8
:15:28
:02:41 H
37.90
33.82 9*
:02:21
:02:21 A
31.64
10*
:59:41
:59:41 H
32.57 11
:15:17
:31:30 A
5.92
31.92
*) Sondes launched on the same balloon; A and H demote the Vaisala humicap sensor type of RS80, A-humicap and H-humicap, respectively.

9. Height at 100 hPa during Aug 6-13, 2009
Asian High center moved westward

11. Main outflow at so high level?
O3: 35 ppb H2O: 2.0 ppm CPT: ºC Both extremely low value near 100mb !!!
Positive Correlation
0.03

12. Super-saturation Multi-layer
70mb
Super-saturation Multi-layer
Due to sub-cell in the neighborhood of Tibet Plateau?

13. RH
70mb

14. O3
H2O

15. O3
0.04
H2O

16. Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Summary
For the first time, H2O and O3 in UTLS were measured during Asian summer monsoon
Some preliminary analysis:
some finer and interesting structures
super-saturation and multi-layer in UT
Much more further analysis combined with satellite data and trajectory model is under way
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Thank you very much!