Gravitational fractionation of Ar/N2 and age of air in the lowermost stratosphere

Benjamin Birner1, Martyn Chipperfield2, Eric James Morgan1, Britton B Stephens3, Marianna Linz4, Wuhu Feng2, Chris J Wilson5, Jonathan D Bent6, Eric J Hintsa7, Jeffrey P Severinghaus1 and Ralph F Keeling8, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (6)Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States