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@ARTICLE{Sahu:13170,
author = {Sahu, L.K. and Lal, S. and Thouret, V. and Smit, H.G.},
title = {{S}easonality of tropospheric ozone and water vapor over
{D}elhi, {I}ndia: a study based on {MOZAIC} measurement
data},
journal = {Journal of atmospheric chemistry},
volume = {62},
issn = {0167-7764},
address = {Dordrecht [u.a.]},
publisher = {Springer Science + Business Media B.V},
reportid = {PreJuSER-13170},
pages = {151 - 174},
year = {2009},
note = {The authors acknowledge for their strong support the
European Commission, Airbus, CNRS-France, FZJ-Germany and
the airlines (Lufthansa, Air France, Austrian and former
Sabena who carry free of charge the MOZAIC instrumentation
since 1994). We are thankful to the Indian Meteorological
Department (IMD), Government of India for providing us the
rainfall data. We are thankful to Dr. M. Kajino and Japan
Meteorological Agency (JMA) for providing potential
vorticity data. The ATSR World Fire Atlas data has been
taken from Ionia products of European Space Agency.},
abstract = {Tropospheric distributions of ozone (O-3) and water vapor
(H2O) have been presented based on the Measurements of OZone
and water vapor by Airbus In-Service AirCraft (MOZAIC) data
over the metro and capital city of Delhi, India during
1996-2001. The vertical mixing ratios of both O-3 and H2O
show strong seasonal variations. The mixing ratios of O-3
were often below 40 ppbv near the surface and higher values
were observed in the free troposphere during the seasons of
winter and spring. In the free troposphere, the high mixing
ratio of O-3 during the seasons of winter and spring are
mainly due to the long-range transport of O-3 and its
precursors associated with the westerly-northwesterly
circulation. In the lower and middle troposphere, the low
mixing ratios of similar to 20-30 ppbv observed during the
months of July-September are mainly due to prevailing summer
monsoon circulation over Indian subcontinent. The summer
monsoon circulation, southwest (SW) wind flow, transports
the O-3-poor marine air from the Arabian Sea and Indian
Ocean. The monthly averages of rainfall and mixing ratio of
H2O show opposite seasonal cycles to that of O-3 mixing
ratio in the lower and middle troposphere. The change in the
transport pattern also causes substantial seasonal variation
in the mixing ratio of H2O of 3-27 g/kg in the lower
troposphere over Delhi. Except for some small-scale
anomalies, the similar annual patterns in the mixing ratios
of O-3 and H2O are repeated during the different years of
1996-2001. The case studies based on the profiles of O-3,
relative humidity (RH) and temperature show distinct
features of vertical distribution over Delhi. The impacts of
long range transport of air mass from Africa, the Middle
East, Indian Ocean and intrusions of stratospheric O-3 have
also been demonstrated using the back trajectory model and
remote sensing data for biomass burning and forest fire
activities.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491},
shelfmark = {Environmental Sciences / Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric
Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000275754100004},
doi = {10.1007/s10874-010-9146-1},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/13170},
}