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TI: Elevated Tropospheric Ozone Over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Northern Midlatitudes
AU: * Chandra, S
EM: chandra@twod.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21250 United States
AU: * Chandra, S
EM: chandra@twod.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Ziemke, J R
EM: ziemke@jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21250 United States
AU: Ziemke, J R
EM: ziemke@jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Tie, X
EM: xxtie@acd.ucar.edu
AF: NCAR, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AB: Tropospheric column ozone (TCO) is derived from differential measurements of TOMS total column ozone and Microwave Limb Sounder stratospheric column ozone. It is shown that TCO during summer months over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in northern midlatitudes is about the same (50 to 60 Dobson Units) as over the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia, where surface emissions of nitrogen oxides from industrial sources, biomass and biofuel burning and biogenic emissions are significantly larger. This nearly uniform zonal variation in TCO is modulated by surface topography of the Rocky and Himalayan mountains, and Tibetan plateau where TCO is reduced by 20 to 30 Dobson Units. The zonal variation in TCO is well simulated by a global chemical transport model called MOZART-2 (Model of Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers, version 2). The model results are analyzed to delineate the relative importance of various processes contributing to observed zonal characteristics of TCO.
DE: 0322 Constituent sources and sinks
DE: 0365 Troposphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0368 Troposphere--constituent transport and chemistry
DE: 3314 Convective processes
DE: 3374 Tropical meteorology
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting