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@ARTICLE{Rosanka:894238,
author = {Rosanka, Simon and Franco, Bruno and Clarisse, Lieven and
Coheur, Pierre-François and Pozzer, Andrea and Wahner,
Andreas and Taraborrelli, Domenico},
title = {{T}he impact of organic pollutants from {I}ndonesian
peatland fires on the tropospheric and lower stratospheric
composition},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {21},
number = {14},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-03118},
pages = {11257 - 11288},
year = {2021},
abstract = {The particularly strong dry season in Indonesia in 2015,
caused by an exceptionally strong El Niño, led to severe
peatland fires resulting in high volatile organic compound
(VOC) biomass burning emissions. At the same time, the
developing Asian monsoon anticyclone (ASMA) and the general
upward transport in the Intertropical Convergence Zone
(ITCZ) efficiently transported the resulting primary and
secondary pollutants to the upper troposphere and lower
stratosphere (UTLS). In this study, we assess the importance
of these VOC emissions for the composition of the lower
troposphere and the UTLS and investigate the effect of
in-cloud oxygenated VOC (OVOC) oxidation during such a
strong pollution event. This is achieved by performing
multiple chemistry simulations using the global atmospheric
model ECHAM/MESSy (EMAC). By comparing modelled columns of
the biomass burning marker hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and carbon
monoxide (CO) to spaceborne measurements from the Infrared
Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), we find that
EMAC properly captures the exceptional strength of the
Indonesian fires.In the lower troposphere, the increase in
VOC levels is higher in Indonesia compared to other biomass
burning regions. This has a direct impact on the oxidation
capacity, resulting in the largest regional reduction in the
hydroxyl radical (OH) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). While an
increase in ozone (O3) is predicted close to the peatland
fires, simulated O3 decreases in eastern Indonesia due to
particularly high phenol concentrations. In the ASMA and the
ITCZ, the upward transport leads to elevated VOC
concentrations in the lower stratosphere, which results in
the reduction of OH and NOx and the increase in the
hydroperoxyl radical (HO2). In addition, the degradation of
VOC emissions from the Indonesian fires becomes a major
source of lower stratospheric nitrate radicals (NO3), which
increase by up to $20 \%.$ Enhanced phenol levels in the
upper troposphere result in a $20 \%$ increase in the
contribution of phenoxy radicals to the chemical destruction
of O3, which is predicted to be as large as $40 \%$ of the
total chemical O3 loss in the UTLS. In the months following
the fires, this loss propagates into the lower stratosphere
and potentially contributes to the variability of lower
stratospheric O3 observed by satellite retrievals. The
Indonesian peatland fires regularly occur during El Niño
years, and the largest perturbations of radical
concentrations in the lower stratosphere are predicted for
particularly strong El Niño years. By activating the
detailed in-cloud OVOC oxidation scheme Jülich
Aqueous-phase Mechanism of Organic Chemistry (JAMOC), we
find that the predicted changes are dampened. Global models
that neglect in-cloud OVOC oxidation tend to overestimate
the impact of such extreme pollution events on the
atmospheric composition.},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {2111 - Air Quality (POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000678602500003},
doi = {10.5194/acp-21-11257-2021},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/894238},
}