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@ARTICLE{Ungermann:823851,
author = {Ungermann, Jörn and Ern, Mandfred and Kaufmann, Martin and
Müller, Rolf and Spang, Reinhold and Ploeger, Felix and
Vogel, Bärbel and Riese, Martin},
title = {{O}bservations of {PAN} and its confinement in the {A}sian
summer monsoon anticyclone in high spatial resolution},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {16},
number = {13},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-06491},
pages = {8389 - 8403},
year = {2016},
abstract = {This paper presents an analysis of trace gases in the Asian
summer monsoon (ASM) region on the basis of observations by
the CRISTA infrared limb sounder taken in low-earth orbit in
August 1997. The spatially highly resolved measurements of
peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and O3 allow a detailed analysis
of an eddy-shedding event of the ASM anticyclone. We
identify enhanced PAN volume mixing ratios (VMRs) within the
main anticyclone and within the eddy, which are suitable as
a tracer for polluted air originating in India and China.
Plotting the retrieved PAN VMRs against potential vorticity
(PV) and potential temperature reveals that the PV value at
which the PAN VMRs exhibit the strongest decrease with
respect to PV increases with potential temperature. These PV
values might be used to identify the extent of the ASM.
Using temperature values also derived from CRISTA
measurements, we also computed the location of the thermal
tropopause according to the WMO criterion and find that it
confines the PAN anomaly vertically within the main ASM
anticyclone. In contrast, the shed eddy exhibits enhanced
PAN VMRs for 1 to 2 km above the thermal tropopause. Using
the relationship between PAN as a tropospheric tracer and O3
as a stratospheric tracer to identify mixed air parcels, we
further found the anticyclone to contain few such air
parcels, whereas the region between the anticyclone and the
eddy as well as the eddy itself contains many mixed air
parcels. In combination, this implies that while the
anticyclone confines polluted air masses well, eddy shedding
provides a very rapid horizontal transport pathway of Asian
pollution into the extratropical lowermost stratosphere with
a timescale of only a few days.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000381091400021},
doi = {10.5194/acp-16-8389-2016},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/823851},
}