Boundary Layer Ozone Across the Indian Subcontinent: Who Influences Whom?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (16) ◽  
pp. 10008-10014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liji M. David ◽  
A. R. Ravishankara
2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1949-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Amoroso ◽  
Harry J. Beine ◽  
Roberto Sparapani ◽  
Marianna Nardino ◽  
Ivo Allegrini

2013 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 123-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ming Hu ◽  
Petra M. Klein ◽  
Ming Xue ◽  
Fuqing Zhang ◽  
David C. Doughty ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5827-5839 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Chen ◽  
X. D. Xu ◽  
S. Yang ◽  
T. L. Zhao

Abstract. The Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) region has been recognized as a key region that plays a vital role in troposphere-to-stratosphere transport (TST), which can significant impact the budget of global atmospheric constituents and climate change. However, the details of transport from the boundary layer (BL) to tropopause layer (TL) over these regions, particularly from a climatological perspective, remain an issue of uncertainty. In this study, we present the climatological properties of BL-to-TL transport over the ASM region during boreal summer season (June-July-August) from 2001 to 2009. A comprehensive tracking analysis is conducted based on a large ensemble of TST-trajectories departing from the atmospheric BL and arriving at TL. Driven by the winds fields from NCEP/NCAR Global Forecast System, all the TST-trajectories are selected from the high resolution datasets generated by the Lagrangian particle transport model FLEXPART using a domain-filling technique. Three key atmospheric boundary layer sources for BL-to-TL transport are identified with their contributions: (i) 38% from the region between tropical Western Pacific region and South China Seas (WP) (ii) 21% from Bay of Bengal and South Asian subcontinent (BOB), and (iii) 12% from the Tibetan Plateau, which includes the South Slope of the Himalayas (TIB). Controlled by the different patterns of atmospheric circulation, the air masses originated from these three source regions are transported along the different tracks into the TL. The spatial distributions of three source regions keep similarly from year to year. The timescales of transport from BL to TL by the large-scale ascents r-range from 1 to 7 weeks contributing up to 60–70% of the overall TST, whereas the transport governed by the deep convection overshooting become faster on a timescales of 1–2 days with the contributions of 20–30%. These results provide clear policy implications for the control of very short lived substances, especially for the source regions over Indian subcontinent with increasing populations and developing industries.


2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1451-1469 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Morin ◽  
J. Savarino ◽  
S. Bekki ◽  
S. Gong ◽  
J. W. Bottenheim

Abstract. We report the first measurements of the oxygen isotope anomaly of atmospheric inorganic nitrate from the Arctic. Nitrate samples and complementary data were collected at Alert, Nunavut, Canada (82°30 ' N, 62°19 ' W) in spring 2004. Covering the polar sunrise period, characterized by the occurrence of severe boundary layer ozone depletion events (ODEs), our data show a significant correlation between the variations of atmospheric ozone (O3) mixing ratios and Δ17O of nitrate (Δ17O(NO−3)). This relationship can be expressed as: Δ17O(NO−3)/‰, =(0.15±0.03)×O3/(nmol mol–1)+(29.7±0.7), with R2=0.70(n=12), for Δ17O(NO−3) ranging between 29 and 35 ‰. We derive mass-balance equations from chemical reactions operating in the Arctic boundary layer, that describe the evolution of Δ17O(NO−3) as a function of the concentrations of reactive species and their isotopic characteristics. Changes in the relative importance of O3, RO2 and BrO in the oxidation of NO during ODEs, and the large isotope anomalies of O3 and BrO, are the driving force for the variability in the measured Δ17O(NO−3) . BrONO2 hydrolysis is found to be a dominant source of nitrate in the Arctic boundary layer, in agreement with recent modeling studies.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Makar ◽  
R. M. Staebler ◽  
A. Akingunola ◽  
J. Zhang ◽  
C. McLinden ◽  
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