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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4093-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4093-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
02 Apr 2019
Research article |
| 02 Apr 2019
| 02 Apr 2019
The distribution of sea-salt aerosol in the global troposphere
Daniel M. Murphy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Karl D. Froyd
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Huisheng Bian
Joint Center for Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Charles A. Brock
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Jack E. Dibb
Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Joshua P. DiGangi
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Glenn Diskin
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Maximillian Dollner
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Agnieszka Kupc
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Eric M. Scheuer
Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Gregory P. Schill
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Bernadett Weinzierl
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christina J. Williamson
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Pengfei Yu
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Data sets
Measurements and modeling results from the NASA Atmospheric Tomography Mission ATom https://doi.org/10.5067/Aircraft/ATom/TraceGas_Aerosol_Global_Distribution
Short summary
We present the first data on the concentration of sea-salt aerosol throughout most of the depth of the troposphere and a wide range of latitudes. Sea-salt concentrations in the upper troposphere are very small. This puts stringent limits on how sea-salt aerosol affects halogen and nitric acid chemistry there. With a widely distributed source, sea-salt aerosol provides an excellent test of wet scavenging and vertical transport of aerosols in chemical transport models.
We present the first data on the concentration of sea-salt aerosol throughout most of the depth...
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