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11 Nov 2016
Research article |
| 11 Nov 2016
On the role of tropopause folds in summertime tropospheric ozone over the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Andrea Pozzer
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Prodromos Zanis
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Evangelos Tyrlis
Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Bojan Škerlak
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Sprenger
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Jos Lelieveld
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Short summary
We investigate the contribution of tropopause folds in the summertime tropospheric ozone pool over the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. For this purpose we use the EMAC atmospheric chemistry–climate model and a fold identification algorithm. A clear increase of ozone is found in the middle troposphere due to fold activity. The interannual variability of near-surface ozone over the eastern Mediterranean is related to that of both tropopause folds and ozone in the free troposphere.
We investigate the contribution of tropopause folds in the summertime tropospheric ozone pool...
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