The distribution of sea-salt aerosol in the global troposphere

Murphy, Daniel M.; Froyd, Karl D.; Bian, Huisheng; Brock, Charles A.; Dibb, Jack E.; DiGangi, Joshua P.; Diskin, Glenn; Dollner, Maximillian; Kupc, Agnieszka; Scheuer, Eric M.; Schill, Gregory P.; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Williamson, Christina J.; Yu, Pengfei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4093-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4093-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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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.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

Research article

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02 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 02 Apr 2019

The distribution of sea-salt aerosol in the global troposphere

Daniel M. Murphy, Karl D. Froyd, Huisheng Bian, Charles A. Brock, Jack E. Dibb, Joshua P. DiGangi, Glenn Diskin, Maximillian Dollner, Agnieszka Kupc, Eric M. Scheuer, Gregory P. Schill, Bernadett Weinzierl, Christina J. Williamson, and Pengfei Yu

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 Mar 2019) by Yafang Cheng

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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.