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) |
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Pages (from-to) | D05310 1-15 |
Journal | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |
Volume | 109 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
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