Abstract
Two long meridional flights of the WB57F high-altitude aircraft 1-2 km below the tropical tropopause are examined for ozone and total water variability in the context of a large suite of tracers having lifetimes ranging from 10-2 to 103 years, together with mass spectra of individual aerosol particles. It is concluded that local correlations are predominant; contributing processes to the maintenance of the composition are marine convection, continental convection, in situ chemical production, biomass burning, downward transport from the stratosphere and recirculation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | D05310 1-15 |
| Journal | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - Mar 16 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Composition
- Tropical
- Troposphere
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geophysics
- Forestry
- Oceanography
- Aquatic Science
- Ecology
- Water Science and Technology
- Soil Science
- Geochemistry and Petrology
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Atmospheric Science
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Space and Planetary Science
- Palaeontology
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Tuck, A. F., Hovde, S. J., Kelly, K. K., Reid, S. J., Richard, E. C., Atlas, E. L., Donnelly, S. G., Stroud, V. R., Cziczo, D. J., Murphy, D. M., Thomson, D. S., Elkins, J. W., Moore, F. L., Ray, E. A., Mahoney, M. J., & Friedl, R. R. (2004). Horizontal variability 1-2 km below the tropical tropopause. Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 109(5), D05310 1-15.