The global tropospheric ammonia distribution as seen in the 13-year AIRS  measurement record

Warner, Juying X.; Wei, Zigang; Strow, L. Larrabee; Dickerson, Russell R.; Nowak, John B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5467-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5467-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5467-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

Research article

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02 May 2016

Research article |

| 02 May 2016

The global tropospheric ammonia distribution as seen in the 13-year AIRS measurement record

Juying X. Warner, Zigang Wei, L. Larrabee Strow, Russell R. Dickerson, and John B. Nowak

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Final revised paper (published on 02 May 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 21 Dec 2015)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC C11924: 'jacobian matrix', Leonid Yurganov, 22 Jan 2016
- AC C13425: 'Reply to Interactive Comment by L. Yurganov', Juying Warner, 08 Apr 2016
SC C12190: 'Comments on the AIRS NH3 measurement', Guiqian Tang, 03 Feb 2016
- AC C13426: 'Reply to Interactive Comments by G. Tang', Juying Warner, 08 Apr 2016
RC C12404: 'Review of Warner et al., AIRS Ammonia', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Feb 2016
- AC C13428: 'Reply to Reviewer #1', Juying Warner, 08 Apr 2016
RC C12799: 'Review of Warner et al. AIRS Ammonia paper', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Feb 2016
- AC C13434: 'Reply to Reviewer #3', Juying Warner, 08 Apr 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Juying Warner on behalf of the Authors (08 Apr 2016) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Apr 2016) by William Lahoz (deceased)

AR by Juying Warner on behalf of the Authors (12 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We present the global distributions of tropospheric ammonia observed by the satellite sensor AIRS from September 2002 through August 2015. The AIRS instrument captures the ammonia concentrations emitted from the anthropogenic (agricultural) source regions where a summer maximum and secondary spring maximum are observable, and the high ammonia concentrations from episodic biomass burning events.