High Resolution Temperature Profile

High resolution (20cm) temperature profile, just above the tropopause. Boxes marked with letters (a ...g) contain examples of sheets. Two close-ups of sheets "b" and "e" are displayed with the three profiles measured on the main gondola. Ongoing mixing is clearly present in the sheet "b". Francis Dalaudier, Claude Sidi, Michel Crochet, Jean Vernin:

Direct evidence of "sheets" in the atmospheric temperature field.

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51, 237-248, 15 January 1994.