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Research article
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23 Jan 2018
Research article |
| 23 Jan 2018
Vertical distributions of N2O isotopocules in the equatorial stratosphere
Sakae Toyoda
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials
and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502,
Japan
Naohiro Yoshida
Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials
and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502,
Japan
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
152-8550, Japan
Shinji Morimoto
Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of
Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Shuji Aoki
Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of
Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Takakiyo Nakazawa
Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of
Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Satoshi Sugawara
Miyagi University of Education, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
Shigeyuki Ishidoya
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), Tsukuba 305-8569, Japan
Mitsuo Uematsu
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), The University of
Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8564, Japan
Yoichi Inai
Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of
Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Fumio Hasebe
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Chusaku Ikeda
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS), Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara 252-5210, Japan
Hideyuki Honda
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS), Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara 252-5210, Japan
Kentaro Ishijima
Project Team for HPC Advanced Predictions Using Big Data, Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama
236-0001, Japan
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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 143–157, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-143-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-143-2017, 2017
Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Toshiki Iwasaki, Yoshio Kawatani, Chiaki Kobayashi, Satoshi Sugawara, and Michaela I. Hegglin
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 6131–6152, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6131-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6131-2016, 2016
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We report a comparison of the stratospheric mean-meridional circulation and eddy mixing in the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) among the six reanalysis products. Overall, discrepancies between the different variables and trends therein as derived from the different reanalyses are still relatively large, suggesting that more investments in these products are needed in order to obtain a consolidated picture of observed changes in the BDC and the mechanisms that drive them.
Sakae Toyoda and Naohiro Yoshida
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2093–2101, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2093-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2093-2016, 2016
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Tiny variation in natural abundance ratios of stable isotopes of nitrogen and oxygen in nitrous oxide (N2O) can be used as a fingerprint of this trace gas that causes greenhouse effect and stratospheric ozone depletion. Toward the understanding of the global budget of N2O and its temporal change, we developed an automated sample preparation system that can be used to measure the stable isotope ratios in N2O in various air samples collected into flasks with high precision and less labor.
Fumio Hasebe and Taisuke Noguchi
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4235–4249, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4235-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4235-2016, 2016
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This paper tries to answer the long-standing question in middle-atmosphere science on the mechanism of the sudden drop in stratospheric water vapor around the year 2000. Our findings indicate that the location where the air experiences cold temperature before entering the stratosphere shifted in the northern summer of 2000. It may have been led by the eastward expansion of warm water in the tropical Pacific causing the interaction of the heating between Pacific Ocean and the Tibetan Plateau.
Koki Maeda, Sakae Toyoda, Midori Yano, Shohei Hattori, Makoto Fukasawa, Keiichi Nakajima, and Naohiro Yoshida
Biogeosciences, 13, 1341–1349, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1341-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1341-2016, 2016
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Nitrogen isotope ratios (δ15N) of NH4+ in dairy manure compost piles were studied. The δ15N–NH4+ values in different pile zones (top, side and core) show that extremely high nitrogen conversion, nitrification–denitrification activity of the microbes and NH3 volatilization occurred in pile top zone, which has very high NH4+ concentrations and significantly high 15N (δ15N: 12.7–29.8 ‰) values.
Y. Inai, M. Shiotani, M. Fujiwara, F. Hasebe, and H. Vömel
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 4043–4054, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4043-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4043-2015, 2015
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For conventional soundings, the pressure bias of radiosonde leads to an altitude misestimation, which can lead to offsets in any meteorological profile. Therefore, we must take this issue into account to improve historical data sets.
K. Ishijima, M. Takigawa, K. Sudo, S. Toyoda, N. Yoshida, T. Röckmann, J. Kaiser, S. Aoki, S. Morimoto, S. Sugawara, and T. Nakazawa
Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-15-19947-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-15-19947-2015, 2015
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We developed an atmospheric N2O isotopocule model based on a chemistry-coupled atmospheric general circulation model and a simple method to optimize the model, and estimated the isotopic signatures of surface sources at the hemispheric scale. Data obtained from ground-based observations, measurements of firn air, and balloon and aircraft flights were used to optimize the long-term trends, interhemispheric gradients, and photolytic fractionation, respectively, in the model.
A. Ghosh, P. K. Patra, K. Ishijima, T. Umezawa, A. Ito, D. M. Etheridge, S. Sugawara, K. Kawamura, J. B. Miller, E. J. Dlugokencky, P. B. Krummel, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, R. L. Langenfelds, C. M. Trudinger, J. W. C. White, B. Vaughn, T. Saeki, S. Aoki, and T. Nakazawa
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 2595–2612, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2595-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2595-2015, 2015
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Atmospheric CH4 increased from 900ppb to 1800ppb during the period 1900–2010 at a rate unprecedented in any observational records. We use bottom-up emissions and a chemistry-transport model to simulate CH4. The optimized global total CH4 emission, estimated from the model–observation differences, increased at fastest rate during 1940–1990. Using δ13C of CH4 measurements we attribute this emission increase to biomass burning. Total CH4 lifetime is shortened by 4% over the simulation period.
N. Zhang, K. Yamada, N. Suzuki, and N. Yoshida
Biogeosciences, 11, 5335–5348, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5335-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5335-2014, 2014
R. L. Thompson, K. Ishijima, E. Saikawa, M. Corazza, U. Karstens, P. K. Patra, P. Bergamaschi, F. Chevallier, E. Dlugokencky, R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, S. O'Doherty, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, P. B. Krummel, A. Vermeulen, Y. Tohjima, A. Jordan, L. Haszpra, M. Steinbacher, S. Van der Laan, T. Aalto, F. Meinhardt, M. E. Popa, J. Moncrieff, and P. Bousquet
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 6177–6194, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6177-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6177-2014, 2014
T. Yamazaki, T. Hozuki, K. Arai, S. Toyoda, K. Koba, T. Fujiwara, and N. Yoshida
Biogeosciences, 11, 2679–2689, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2679-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2679-2014, 2014
E. Saikawa, R. G. Prinn, E. Dlugokencky, K. Ishijima, G. S. Dutton, B. D. Hall, R. Langenfelds, Y. Tohjima, T. Machida, M. Manizza, M. Rigby, S. O'Doherty, P. K. Patra, C. M. Harth, R. F. Weiss, P. B. Krummel, M. van der Schoot, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, S. Aoki, T. Nakazawa, and J. W. Elkins
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 4617–4641, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4617-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4617-2014, 2014
R. L. Thompson, P. K. Patra, K. Ishijima, E. Saikawa, M. Corazza, U. Karstens, C. Wilson, P. Bergamaschi, E. Dlugokencky, C. Sweeney, R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, S. O'Doherty, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, P. B. Krummel, M. Saunois, M. Chipperfield, and P. Bousquet
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 4349–4368, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4349-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4349-2014, 2014
T. O. Sato, H. Sagawa, N. Yoshida, and Y. Kasai
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 941–958, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-941-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-941-2014, 2014
S. Zhou, L. Gonzalez, A. Leithead, Z. Finewax, R. Thalman, A. Vlasenko, S. Vagle, L.A. Miller, S.-M. Li, S. Bureekul, H. Furutani, M. Uematsu, R. Volkamer, and J. Abbatt
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 1371–1384, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1371-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1371-2014, 2014
K. Osada, S. Ura, M. Kagawa, M. Mikami, T. Y. Tanaka, S. Matoba, K. Aoki, M. Shinoda, Y. Kurosaki, M. Hayashi, A. Shimizu, and M. Uematsu
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 1107–1121, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1107-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1107-2014, 2014
S. Ishidoya, S. Sugawara, S. Morimoto, S. Aoki, T. Nakazawa, H. Honda, and S. Murayama
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 8787–8796, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8787-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8787-2013, 2013
Y. Inai, F. Hasebe, M. Fujiwara, M. Shiotani, N. Nishi, S.-Y. Ogino, H. Vömel, S. Iwasaki, and T. Shibata
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 8623–8642, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8623-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8623-2013, 2013
D. Tsumune, T. Tsubono, M. Aoyama, M. Uematsu, K. Misumi, Y. Maeda, Y. Yoshida, and H. Hayami
Biogeosciences, 10, 5601–5617, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-5601-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-5601-2013, 2013
Y. Takahashi, T. Furukawa, Y. Kanai, M. Uematsu, G. Zheng, and M. A. Marcus
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 7695–7710, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7695-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7695-2013, 2013
M. Aoyama, M. Uematsu, D. Tsumune, and Y. Hamajima
Biogeosciences, 10, 3067–3078, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3067-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3067-2013, 2013
F. Hasebe, Y. Inai, M. Shiotani, M. Fujiwara, H. Vömel, N. Nishi, S.-Y. Ogino, T. Shibata, S. Iwasaki, N. Komala, T. Peter, and S. J. Oltmans
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 4393–4411, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4393-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4393-2013, 2013
J. A. Schmidt, M. S. Johnson, S. Hattori, N. Yoshida, S. Nanbu, and R. Schinke
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 1511–1520, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1511-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1511-2013, 2013
G. A. Morris, G. Labow, H. Akimoto, M. Takigawa, M. Fujiwara, F. Hasebe, J. Hirokawa, and T. Koide
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 1243–1260, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1243-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1243-2013, 2013
J. Jung, H. Furutani, M. Uematsu, S. Kim, and S. Yoon
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 411–428, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-411-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-411-2013, 2013
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By analysis of whole air samples collected by balloon-borne compact cryogenic samplers, we found that apparent isotope effect for stratospheric N2O between 25 and 30 km over the Equator is larger than that observed in other latitudes and that it is almost equal to the effect predicted by laboratory simulation experiments. These results suggest that equatorial middle stratosphere can be treated as an isolated region when we consider the decomposition of N2O by photochemical processes.
By analysis of whole air samples collected by balloon-borne compact cryogenic samplers, we found...
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