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@ARTICLE{Williams:5446,
author = {Williams, J. E. and Scheele, M.P. and van Velthoven, P.F.J.
and Cammas, J.-P. and Thouret, V. and Galy-Lacaux, C. and
Volz-Thomas, A.},
title = {{T}he influence of biogenic emissions from {A}frica on
tropical tropospheric ozone during 2006: a global modeling
study},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {9},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-5446},
pages = {5729 - 5749},
year = {2009},
note = {The authors acknowledge the EU integrated project AMMA
(African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) for the support
network and funding. Based on a French initiative, AMMA was
built by an international scientific group and is currently
funded by a large number of agencies, especially from
France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Africa. It
has been the beneficiary of a major financial contribution
from the European Community Sixth Framework Research
Programme. Detailed information on scientific co-ordination
and funding is available on the AMMA International Web site
at www.amma-international.org. We are also grateful to Hans
Schlager (DLR), Gerard Ancellet (Service d'Aeronomie) and
the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)
for permission to use the measurements taken during the AMMA
measurement campaign. We also acknowledge both the POET and
RETRO EU projects for providing the emission inventories for
both used in this study and the INSU-CNRS (France), the
European Network of Excellence ACCENT and the ICG
Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany) for providing the
transportation and maintenance costs of the MOZAIC
instrumentation onboard the Air Namibia aircraft. The MOZAIC
database is managed by ETHER (CNES and INSU-CNRS, France).
Finally, we thank the two anonymous referees who made
suggestions which improved the readability of the
manuscript.},
abstract = {We have performed simulations using a 3-D global
chemistry-transport model to investigate the influence that
biogenic emissions from the African continent exert on the
composition of the troposphere in the tropical region. For
this purpose we have applied two recently developed biogenic
emission inventories provided for use in large-scale global
models (Granier et al., 2005; LathiSre et al., 2006) whose
seasonality and temporal distribution for biogenic emissions
of isoprene, other volatile organic compounds and NO is
markedly different. The use of the 12 year average values
for biogenic emissions provided by LathiSre et al. (2006)
results in an increase in the amount of nitrogen
sequestrated into longer lived reservoir compounds which
contributes to the reduction in the tropospheric ozone
burden in the tropics. The associated re-partitioning of
nitrogen between PAN, HNO3 and organic nitrates also results
in a similar to $5\%$ increase in the loss of nitrogen by
wet deposition. At a global scale there is a reduction in
the oxidizing capacity of the model atmosphere which
increases the atmospheric lifetimes of CH4 and CO by similar
to $1.5\%$ and similar to $4\%,$ respectively. Comparisons
against a range of different measurements indicate that
applying the 12 year average of LathiSre et al. (2006)
improves the performance of $TM4_AMMA$ for 2006 in the
tropics. By the use of sensitivity studies we show that the
release of NO from soils in Africa accounts for between
similar to $2-45\%$ of tropospheric ozone in the African
troposphere, similar to $10\%$ in the upper troposphere and
between similar to $5-20\%$ of the tropical tropospheric
ozone column over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. The
subsequent reduction in OH over the source regions allows
enhanced transport of CO out of the region. For biogenic
volatile organic C1 to C3 species released from Africa, the
effects on tropical tropospheric ozone are rather limited,
although this source contributes to the global burden of VOC
by between similar to $2-4\%$ and has a large influence on
the organic composition of the troposphere over the tropical
Atlantic Ocean.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-2},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB791},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000268876600020},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/5446},
}