Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics www.atmos-chem-phys.net 1680-7316 1680-7324 10 8 2010 10.5194/acp-10-3813-2010 http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/3813/2010/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/3813/2010/acp-10-3813-2010.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/3813/2010/acp-10-3813-2010.pdf 3813 3825 2010-04-23 Radiosonde stratospheric temperatures at Dumont d'Urville (Antarctica): trends and link with polar stratospheric clouds C. David christine.david@latmos.ipsl.fr P. Keckhut A. Armetta J. Jumelet M. Snels M. Marchand S. Bekki LATMOS-IPSL, UVSQ, Univ. UPMC Paris 6, Paris, France ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy also at: Institut Polaire Français Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV), Plouzané, France Temperature profiles measurements are performed daily (00:00 UT) in Dumont d'Urville (66&deg;40' S, 140&deg;01' E) by Météo-France, using standard radiosondes, since the International Geophysical Year in 1957. Yet, due to a 16 years data gap between 1963 and 1978, the entire dataset is only used for a qualitative overview. Only the most recent series, between 1979 and 2008, is used to investigate the inter-annual stratospheric temperatures variability. Over Dumont d'Urville, at the edge of the vortex, the annual mean temperature cooling of about 1 K/decade at 20 km is the result of the cooling trends between 0.5 and 1.4 K/decade, in summer and autumn and a warming of about 1.1 K/decade in spring. These values are consistent with values obtained using data from inner vortex stations, but with smaller amplitude. No statistically significant trend is detected in winter. We propose here the first attempt to link stratospheric temperature trends to Polar Stratospheric Cloud (PSC) trends in Antarctica based on the only continuous 20 years database of PSC lidar detection. 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