Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008
Ozone pollution transported to the Arctic is a significant concern because of the rapid, enhanced warming in high northern latitudes, which is caused, in part, by short-lived climate forcers, such as ozone. Long-range transport of pollution contributes to background and episodic ozone levels in the...
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[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph] Thomas, Jennie L. Raut, Jean-Christophe Law, Kathy S. Marelle, Louis Ancellet, Gérard Ravetta, François Fast, Jerome D. Pfister, Gabriele Emmons, Louisa K. Diskin, Glenn S. Weinheimer, Andrew Roiger, Anke Schlager, Hans Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 |
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Ozone pollution transported to the Arctic is a significant concern because of the rapid, enhanced warming in high northern latitudes, which is caused, in part, by short-lived climate forcers, such as ozone. Long-range transport of pollution contributes to background and episodic ozone levels in the Arctic. However, the extent to which plumes are photochemically active during transport, particularly during the summer, is still uncertain. In this study, regional chemical transport model simulations are used to examine photochemical production of ozone in air masses originating from boreal fire and anthropogenic emissions over North America and during their transport toward the Arctic during early July 2008. Model results are evaluated using POLARCAT aircraft data collected over boreal fire source regions in Canada (ARCTAS-B) and several days downwind over Greenland (POLARCAT-France and POLARCAT-GRACE). Model results are generally in good agreement with the observations, except for certain trace gas species over boreal fire regions, in some cases indicating that the fire emissions are too low. Anthropogenic and biomass burning pollution (BB) from North America was rapidly uplifted during transport east and north to Greenland where pollution plumes were observed in the mid- and upper troposphere during POLARCAT. A model sensitivity study shows that CO levels are in better agreement with POLARCAT measurements (fresh and aged fire plumes) upon doubling CO emissions from fires. Analysis of model results, using ΔO 3 /ΔCO enhancement ratios, shows that pollution plumes formed ozone during transport towards the Arctic. Fresh anthropogenic plumes have average ΔO 3 /ΔCO enhancement ratios of 0.63 increasing to 0.92 for aged anthropogenic plumes, indicating additional ozone production during aging. Fresh fire plumes are only slightly enhanced in ozone (ΔO 3 /ΔCO=0.08), but form ozone downwind with ΔO 3 /ΔCO of 0.49 for aged BB plumes (model-based run). We estimate that aged anthropogenic and BB pollution together made an ... |
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TROPO - LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR) NASA Langley Research Center Hampton (LaRC) DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre = DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IPA) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling (DLR) |
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Thomas, Jennie L. Raut, Jean-Christophe Law, Kathy S. Marelle, Louis Ancellet, Gérard Ravetta, François Fast, Jerome D. Pfister, Gabriele Emmons, Louisa K. Diskin, Glenn S. Weinheimer, Andrew Roiger, Anke Schlager, Hans |
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Thomas, Jennie L. Raut, Jean-Christophe Law, Kathy S. Marelle, Louis Ancellet, Gérard Ravetta, François Fast, Jerome D. Pfister, Gabriele Emmons, Louisa K. Diskin, Glenn S. Weinheimer, Andrew Roiger, Anke Schlager, Hans |
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Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 |
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Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 |
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Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 |
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Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 |
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Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 |
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ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://hal.science/hal-00755292 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013, 13 (7), pp.3825-3848. ⟨10.5194/acp-13-3825-2013⟩ |
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ftuniversailles:oai:HAL:hal-00755292v1 2024-05-19T07:35:21+00:00 Pollution transport from North America to Greenland during summer 2008 Thomas, Jennie L. Raut, Jean-Christophe Law, Kathy S. Marelle, Louis Ancellet, Gérard Ravetta, François Fast, Jerome D. Pfister, Gabriele Emmons, Louisa K. Diskin, Glenn S. Weinheimer, Andrew Roiger, Anke Schlager, Hans TROPO - LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR) NASA Langley Research Center Hampton (LaRC) DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre = DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IPA) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling (DLR) 2013 https://hal.science/hal-00755292 https://hal.science/hal-00755292/document https://hal.science/hal-00755292/file/acp-13-3825-2013.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-3825-2013 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-13-3825-2013 hal-00755292 https://hal.science/hal-00755292 https://hal.science/hal-00755292/document https://hal.science/hal-00755292/file/acp-13-3825-2013.pdf doi:10.5194/acp-13-3825-2013 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://hal.science/hal-00755292 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013, 13 (7), pp.3825-3848. ⟨10.5194/acp-13-3825-2013⟩ [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2013 ftuniversailles https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-3825-2013 2024-04-25T00:37:04Z Ozone pollution transported to the Arctic is a significant concern because of the rapid, enhanced warming in high northern latitudes, which is caused, in part, by short-lived climate forcers, such as ozone. Long-range transport of pollution contributes to background and episodic ozone levels in the Arctic. However, the extent to which plumes are photochemically active during transport, particularly during the summer, is still uncertain. In this study, regional chemical transport model simulations are used to examine photochemical production of ozone in air masses originating from boreal fire and anthropogenic emissions over North America and during their transport toward the Arctic during early July 2008. Model results are evaluated using POLARCAT aircraft data collected over boreal fire source regions in Canada (ARCTAS-B) and several days downwind over Greenland (POLARCAT-France and POLARCAT-GRACE). Model results are generally in good agreement with the observations, except for certain trace gas species over boreal fire regions, in some cases indicating that the fire emissions are too low. Anthropogenic and biomass burning pollution (BB) from North America was rapidly uplifted during transport east and north to Greenland where pollution plumes were observed in the mid- and upper troposphere during POLARCAT. A model sensitivity study shows that CO levels are in better agreement with POLARCAT measurements (fresh and aged fire plumes) upon doubling CO emissions from fires. Analysis of model results, using ΔO 3 /ΔCO enhancement ratios, shows that pollution plumes formed ozone during transport towards the Arctic. Fresh anthropogenic plumes have average ΔO 3 /ΔCO enhancement ratios of 0.63 increasing to 0.92 for aged anthropogenic plumes, indicating additional ozone production during aging. Fresh fire plumes are only slightly enhanced in ozone (ΔO 3 /ΔCO=0.08), but form ozone downwind with ΔO 3 /ΔCO of 0.49 for aged BB plumes (model-based run). We estimate that aged anthropogenic and BB pollution together made an ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: HAL-UVSQ Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13 7 3825 3848 |