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Benjamin Kirbus

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How air masses transform during meridional transport into and out of the Arctic is not well represented by numerical models. The airborne field campaign HALO-(AC) 3 applied the High Altitude and Long-range Research Aircraft (HALO) within the framework of ...
Marine cold-air outbreaks (MCAOs) strongly affect the Arctic water cycle and, thus, climate through large-scale air mass transformations. The description of air mass transformations is still challenging, partly because previous observations do not resolve fine scales, particularl ...

Thermodynamic and cloud evolution in a cold-Air outbreak during HALO-(AC) 3

Quasi-Lagrangian observations compared to the ERA5 and CARRA reanalyses

Arctic air masses undergo intense transformations when moving southward from closed sea ice to warmer open waters in marine cold-Air outbreaks (CAOs). Due to the lack of measurements of diabatic heating and moisture uptake rates along CAO flows, studies often depend on atmospheri ...