Olaf Morgenstern

NCAS/ACMSU
Centre for Atmospheric Science
Chemistry Department
Cambridge University
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1EW, U. K.
Tel. 0044-1223-763814
Fax 0044-1223-763823

olaf.morgenstern@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk



Past activities and projects
Contour advection and filament recognition
MOZAIC
Semi-Lagrangian Advection of a Stratospheric Tracer
SAMMOA
Animation of SF6 at 451 K for the winter of 1999/2000
MAP

The UKCA project

I'm presently involved in the UKCA project, which is about adding a comprehensive aerosols and whole-atmosphere chemistry scheme to the "New Dynamics" Unified Model. This is a collaboration between the  MetOffice  and the Universities of  Leeds  and Cambridge.

Publications

O. Morgenstern, I. M. Sokolov, and A. Blumen, Statistical model for surface fracture, Europhys. Lett., 22, 487-492, 1993.
O. Morgenstern, I. M. Sokolov, and A. Blumen, Analysis of a one-dimensional fracture model, J. Phys. A, 26, 4521-4537, 1993.
Sokolov, I. M., O. Morgenstern, and A.Blumen, Models for cracking of polymer coatings, Macromol. Symp., 81, 235-248, 1994.
O. Morgenstern, 1998: Alpine Southside Precipitation Events: Model Studies and Physical Concepts. PhD thesis ETH No. 12421. Christian Müller Verlag, Konstanz. ISBN No. 3-931421-19-8 (abstract)
O. Morgenstern and H. C. Davies, 1999: Disruption of an upper-level PV-streamer by orographic and cloud-diabatic effects, Contr. Atm. Phys., 72, 173-186 (abstract)
O. Morgenstern and G. D. Carver, 1999: Quantification of filaments penetrating the subtropical barrier, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 31,275-31,286 (abstract)
O. Morgenstern and A. Marenco, 2000: Wintertime climatology of MOZAIC ozone based on the potential vorticity and ozone analogy, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 15,481-15,493 (abstract)
O. Morgenstern and G. D. Carver, 2001: Comparison of cross-tropopause transport and ozone in the upper-troposphere / lower-stratosphere region, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 10,205-10,221 (abstract)
O. Morgenstern, J. A. Pyle, A. Iwi, W. A. Norton,
J. W. Elkins, D. F. Hurst,  and P. A. Romashkin, Diagnosis of mixing between middle latitudes and the polar vortex from tracer-tracer correlations, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D17), 4321. (abstract)

O. Morgenstern, A. M. Lee, and J. A. Pyle, 2002: Cumulative mixing inferred from stratospheric tracer relationships, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D5), 8321.


O. Morgenstern and J. A. Pyle, 2003:  Strategies for measuring canonical tracer relationships in the stratosphere , Atmos. Chem. Phys., 3, 259-266.


P. Konopka,  J.-U. Grooss, S. Bausch, R. Mueller, D. S. McKenna, O. Morgenstern, and Y. Orsolini, 2003:  Dynamics and chemistry of vortex remnants in late Arctic spring 1997 and 2000: Simulations with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) , Atmos. Chem. Phys., 3, 839-849.

Last updated: 29 March, 2004.