Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3279-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3279-2017
Research article
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07 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 07 Mar 2017

Causes of interannual variability over the southern hemispheric tropospheric ozone maximum

Junhua Liu, Jose M. Rodriguez, Stephen D. Steenrod, Anne R. Douglass, Jennifer A. Logan, Mark A. Olsen, Krzysztof Wargan, and Jerald R. Ziemke

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We quantify the relative contribution of processes controlling the interannual variability (IAV) of tropospheric ozone over the southern hemispheric tropospheric ozone maximum (SHTOM) with GMI chemistry transport model. We use various GMI tracer diagnostics, including a StratO3 tracer to quantify the stratospheric impact, and tagged CO tracers to track the emission sources. Our result shows that the stratospheric contribution is the most important factor driving the IAV of upper tropospheric O3.
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