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Research article
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28 Mar 2018
Research article |
| 28 Mar 2018
| 28 Mar 2018
Characteristics of intercontinental transport of tropospheric ozone from Africa to Asia
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Huiling Yuan
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Bingliang Zhuang
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Ye Zhu
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Shanghai Public Meteorological Service Centre, Shanghai, China
Yue Wu
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Yuhan Yan
Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
Aijun Ding
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation
Center for Climate Change, CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction
Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Imported African ozone peaks in the Asian middle and upper troposphere in March. The seasonality of African ozone influence on Asia is mainly driven by the seasonal swing of the ITCZ, the Hadley circulation, and the northern subtropical westerlies. The stronger the ITCZ over Africa in a boreal winter is, the more African ozone is transported to Asia that winter. The convective divergence over the ITCZ and the Somali jet are drivers of interhemispheric transport of African ozone.
Imported African ozone peaks in the Asian middle and upper troposphere in March. The seasonality...
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