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@ARTICLE{Lannuque:902297,
author = {Lannuque, Victor and Sauvage, Bastien and Barret, Brice and
Clark, Hannah and Athier, Gilles and Boulanger, Damien and
Cammas, Jean-Pierre and Cousin, Jean-Marc and Fontaine,
Alain and Le Flochmoën, Eric and Nédélec, Philippe and
Petetin, Hervé and Pfaffenzeller, Isabelle and Rohs,
Susanne and Smit, Herman G. J. and Wolff, Pawel and Thouret,
Valérie},
title = {{O}rigins and characterization of {CO} and
${O}\<sub\>3\</sub\>$ in the {A}frican upper troposphere},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {21},
number = {19},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-04160},
pages = {14535 - 14555},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Between December 2005 and 2013, the In-service Aircraft for
a Global Observing System (IAGOS) program produced almost
daily in situ measurements of CO and O3 between Europe and
southern Africa. IAGOS data combined with measurements from
the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI)
instrument aboard the Metop-A satellite (2008–2013) are
used to characterize meridional distributions and
seasonality of CO and O3 in the African upper troposphere
(UT). The FLEXPART particle dispersion model and the SOFT-IO
model which combines the FLEXPART model with CO emission
inventories are used to explore the sources and origins of
the observed transects of CO and O3.We focus our analysis on
two main seasons: December to March (DJFM) and June to
October (JJASO). These seasons have been defined according
to the position of Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ),
determined using in situ measurements from IAGOS. During
both seasons, the UT CO meridional transects are
characterized by maximum mixing ratios located 10∘ from
the position of the ITCZ above the dry regions inside the
hemisphere of the strongest Hadley cell (132 to 165 ppb at
0–5∘ N in DJFM and 128 to 149 ppb at 3–7∘ S in
JJASO) and decreasing values southward and northward. The O3
meridional transects are characterized by mixing ratio
minima of ∼42–54 ppb at the ITCZ (10–16∘ S in
DJFM and 5–8∘ N in JJASO) framed by local maxima
(∼53–71 ppb) coincident with the wind shear zones
north and south of the ITCZ. O3 gradients are strongest in
the hemisphere of the strongest Hadley cell. IASI UT O3
distributions in DJFM have revealed that the maxima are a
part of a crescent-shaped O3 plume above the Atlantic Ocean
around the Gulf of Guinea.CO emitted at the surface is
transported towards the ITCZ by the trade winds and then
convectively uplifted. Once in the upper troposphere,
CO-enriched air masses are transported away from the ITCZ by
the upper branches of the Hadley cells and accumulate within
the zonal wind shear zones where the maximum CO mixing
ratios are found. Anthropogenic and fires both contribute,
by the same order of magnitude, to the CO budget of the
African upper troposphere.Local fires have the highest
contribution and drive the location of the observed UT CO
maxima. Anthropogenic CO contribution is mostly from Africa
during the entire year, with a low seasonal variability.
There is also a large contribution from Asia in JJASO
related to the fast convective uplift of polluted air masses
in the Asian monsoon region which are further westward
transported by the tropical easterly jet (TEJ) and the Asian
monsoon anticyclone (AMA).O3 minima correspond to air masses
that were recently uplifted from the surface where mixing
ratios are low at the ITCZ. The O3 maxima correspond to old
high-altitude air masses uplifted from either local or
long-distance area of high O3 precursor emissions (Africa
and South America during all the year, South Asia mainly in
JJASO) and must be created during transport by
photochemistry.},
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:000703889100001},
doi = {10.5194/acp-21-14535-2021},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/902297},
}