The height of the tropopause B. Geerts and E. Linacre 11/'97 The height of the tropopause depends on the location, notably the latitude, as shown in the figure on the right (which shows annual mean conditions). It also depends on the season (1, 2). Thus, it is about 16 km high over Australia at year-end, and between 12 - 16 km at midyear, being lower at the higher latitudes. At latitudes above ...

Climatological characteristics of the tropical tropopause as revealed by radiosondes Dian J. Gaffen-Seidel, Rebecca J. Ross, James K. Angell NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA George C. Reid Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA Introduction Radiosonde data Tropopause characteristics Summary ...