Impacts of anthropogenic and natural sources on free tropospheric ozone over  the Middle East

Jiang, Zhe; Miyazaki, Kazuyuki; Worden, John R.; Liu, Jane J.; Jones, Dylan B. A.; Henze, Daven K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6537-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6537-2016

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6537-2016

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

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

Research article

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27 May 2016

Research article |

| 27 May 2016

Impacts of anthropogenic and natural sources on free tropospheric ozone over the Middle East

Zhe Jiang, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, John R. Worden, Jane J. Liu, Dylan B. A. Jones, and Daven K. Henze

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

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RC C10957: 'Review of Jiang et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Dec 2015
- AC C13632: 'Response for Comments', Zhe Jiang, 04 May 2016
SC C11991: 'Short Comment on Jiang et al', Bernhard Rappenglück, 26 Jan 2016
- AC C13638: 'Response for comments', Zhe Jiang, 04 May 2016
RC C13576: 'Review of “Impacts of anthropogenic and natural sources on free tropospheric ozone over the Middle East” by Z. Jiang et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 28 Apr 2016
- AC C13640: 'Response for comments', Zhe Jiang, 04 May 2016

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ED: Publish as is (18 May 2016) by Michel Van Roozendael

AR by Zhe Jiang on behalf of the Authors (18 May 2016)

Short summary

We quantify the impacts of anthropogenic and natural sources on free tropospheric ozone over the Middle East, using the adjoint of the GEOS-Chem model with updated NO_x emissions estimates from an ensemble Kalman filter. We show that the global total contribution of lightning NO_x on free tropospheric O₃ over the Middle East is about 2 times larger than that from global anthropogenic sources. The summertime free tropospheric O₃ enhancement is primarily due to Asian NO_x emissions.