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@ARTICLE{Lee:889375,
author = {Lee, K.-O. and Barret, B. and Flochmoen, E. L. and Tulet,
P. and Bucci, S. and von Hobe, Marc and Kloss, Corinna and
Legras, B. and Leriche, M. and Sauvage, B. and Ravegnani, F.
and Ulanovsky, A.},
title = {{C}onvective uplift of pullution from the {S}ichuan basin
into the {A}sian monsoon anticyclone during the
{S}trato{C}lim aircraft campaign},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions},
volume = {2020},
issn = {1680-7367},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-00258},
pages = {581},
year = {2020},
abstract = {The StratoClim airborne campaign took place in Nepal from
27 July to 10 August 2017 to document the physical and
chemical properties of the South Asian Upper Troposphere
Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) during the Asian Summer Monsoon
(ASM). In the present paper, simulations with the Meso-NH
cloud-chemistry model at a horizontal resolution of 15 km
are performed over the Asian region to characterize the
impact of monsoon deep convection on the composition of
Asian Monsoon Anticyclone (AMA) and on the formation of the
Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) during the StratoClim
campaign. StratoClim took place during a break phase of the
monsoon with an intense convective activity over south China
and Sichuan. Comparisons between Brightness Temperature (BT)
at 10.8 microns observed by satellite sensors and simulated
by Meso-NH highlight the ability of the model to correctly
reproduce the life cycle of deep convective clouds.
Comparison between CO and O3 concentrations from Meso-NH and
airborne observations (StratoClim and IAGOS) demonstrates
that the model captures most of the observed variabilities.
Nevertheless, for both gases, the model tends to
overestimate the concentrations and misses some thin CO
plumes related to local convective events probably because
of a too coarse resolution, but the convective uplift of
pollution is very well captured by the model. We have
therefore focused on the impact of Sichuan convection on the
AMA composition. A dedicated sensitivity simulation showed
that the 7 August convective event brought large amounts of
CO deep into the AMA and even across the 380 K isentropic
level located at 17.8 km. This Sichuan contribution
enhanced the CO concentration by $~ 15 \%$ to reach more
than 180 ppbv over a large area around 15 km height.
Noteworthy, Meso-NH captures the impact of the diluted
Sichuan plume on the CO concentration during a StratoClim
flight south of Kathmandu highlighting its ability to
reproduce the transport pathway of Sichuan pollution.
According to the model, primary organic aerosol and black
carbon particles originating from Sichuan are transported
following the same pathway as CO. The large particles are
heavily scavenged within the precipitating part of the
convective clouds but remain the most important contributor
to the particle mass in the AMA. Over the whole AMA region,
the 7 August convective event resulted in a $0.5 \%$
increase of CO over the 10–20 km range that lasted about
2 days. The impact of pollution uplift from three regions
(India, China and Sichuan) averaged over the first 10 days
of August has also been evaluated with sensitivity
simulations. Even during this monsoon break phase, the
results confirm the predominant role of India relative to
China with respective contributions of 11 and $7 \%$ to CO
in the 10–15 km layer. Moreover, during this period a
large part $(35 \%)$ of the Chinese contribution comes
from the Sichuan basin alone.},
cin = {ICG-1 / IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB790 / 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},
doi = {10.5194/acp-2020-581},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/889375},
}