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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3609-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3609-2016
Research article
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17 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2016

Trapping, chemistry, and export of trace gases in the South Asian summer monsoon observed during CARIBIC flights in 2008

Armin Rauthe-Schöch, Angela K. Baker, Tanja J. Schuck, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Andreas Zahn, Markus Hermann, Greta Stratmann, Helmut Ziereis, Peter F. J. van Velthoven, and Jos Lelieveld

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Assonov, S. S., Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M., Schuck, T. J., and Taylor, P.: Analysis of 13C and 18O isotope data of CO2 in CARIBIC aircraft samples as tracers of upper troposphere/lower stratosphere mixing and the global carbon cycle, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8575–8599, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-8575-2010, 2010.
Baker, A. K., Slemr, F., and Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M.: Analysis of non-methane hydrocarbons in air samples collected aboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 311–321, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-3-311-2010, 2010.
Baker, A. K., Schuck, T. J., Slemr, F., van Velthoven, P., Zahn, A., and Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M.: Characterization of non-methane hydrocarbons in Asian summer monsoon outflow observed by the CARIBIC aircraft, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 503–518, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-503-2011, 2011.
Baker, A. K., Schuck, T. J., Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M., Rauthe-Schöch, A., Slemr, F., van Velthoven, P. F. J., and Lelieveld, J.: Estimating the contribution of monsoon-related biogenic production to methane emissions from South Asia using CARIBIC observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10, L10813, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL051756, 2012.
Barret, B., Sauvage, B., Bennouna, Y., and Le Flochmoen, E.: Upper tropospheric CO and O3 budget during the Asian Summer Monsoon, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2015-1011, in review, 2016.
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The flying laboratory CARIBIC onboard a passenger aircraft measured trace gases and aerosol particles in the upper tropospheric Indian summer monsoon anticyclone in summer 2008. We used the measurements together with meteorological analyses to investigate the chemical signature of the northern and southern part of the monsoon, the source regions from where the air was entrained into the monsoon and which parts of the world received polluted air that had been chemically processed in the monsoon.
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