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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13729-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13729-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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16 Sep 2021
Research article |
| 16 Sep 2021
| 16 Sep 2021
Heterogeneity and chemical reactivity of the remote troposphere defined by aircraft measurements
Department of Earth System Science, University of California,
Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Clare M. Flynn
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm 106
91, Sweden
Department of Earth System Science, University of California,
Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Sarah A. Strode
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Stephen D. Steenrod
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Louisa Emmons
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Forrest Lacey
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Jean-Francois Lamarque
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Arlene M. Fiore
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Gus Correa
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Lee T. Murray
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY 14611, USA
Glenn M. Wolfe
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Jason M. St. Clair
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Michelle Kim
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
John Crounse
Atmospheric Composition, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
23666, USA
Glenn Diskin
Atmospheric Composition, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
23666, USA
Joshua DiGangi
Atmospheric Composition, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
23666, USA
Bruce C. Daube
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Roisin Commane
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Kathryn McKain
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory,
NOAA, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Jeff Peischl
Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory,
NOAA, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Thomas B. Ryerson
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Chelsea Thompson
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Thomas F. Hanisco
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Donald Blake
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
92697, USA
Nicola J. Blake
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
92697, USA
Eric C. Apel
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Rebecca S. Hornbrook
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
James W. Elkins
Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory,
NOAA, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Eric J. Hintsa
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory,
NOAA, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Fred L. Moore
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory,
NOAA, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Steven Wofsy
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Editorial note: the authors discovered several major mistakes or decision errors in their analysis of the NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) data presented in this paper. The changes were sufficiently extensive so that the executive editors decided to ask the authors for a completely new paper and to retract the 2021 paper. The errors that were corrected are described in the preface of the corrected paper, which is published as follows:
Guo, H., Flynn, C. M., Prather, M. J., Strode, S. A., Steenrod, S. D., Emmons, L., Lacey, F., Lamarque, J.-F., Fiore, A. M., Correa, G., Murray, L. T., Wolfe, G. M., St. Clair, J. M., Kim, M., Crounse, J., Diskin, G., DiGangi, J., Daube, B. C., Commane, R., McKain, K., Peischl, J., Ryerson, T. B., Thompson, C., Hanisco, T. F., Blake, D., Blake, N. J., Apel, E. C., Hornbrook, R. S., Elkins, J. W., Hintsa, E. J., Moore, F. L., and Wofsy, S. C.: Heterogeneity and chemical reactivity of the remote troposphere defined by aircraft measurements – corrected, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 99–117, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-99-2023, 2023.
The main conclusions of the study are unchanged except those regarding production of ozone, but most of the numbers and many of the figures changed slightly. Readers should refer to the corrected paper.
Ken Carslaw (chief-executive editor)
Guo, H., Flynn, C. M., Prather, M. J., Strode, S. A., Steenrod, S. D., Emmons, L., Lacey, F., Lamarque, J.-F., Fiore, A. M., Correa, G., Murray, L. T., Wolfe, G. M., St. Clair, J. M., Kim, M., Crounse, J., Diskin, G., DiGangi, J., Daube, B. C., Commane, R., McKain, K., Peischl, J., Ryerson, T. B., Thompson, C., Hanisco, T. F., Blake, D., Blake, N. J., Apel, E. C., Hornbrook, R. S., Elkins, J. W., Hintsa, E. J., Moore, F. L., and Wofsy, S. C.: Heterogeneity and chemical reactivity of the remote troposphere defined by aircraft measurements – corrected, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 99–117, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-99-2023, 2023.
The main conclusions of the study are unchanged except those regarding production of ozone, but most of the numbers and many of the figures changed slightly. Readers should refer to the corrected paper.
Ken Carslaw (chief-executive editor)
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Short summary
The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission built a climatology of the chemical composition of tropospheric air parcels throughout the middle of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The level of detail allows us to reconstruct the photochemical budgets of O3 and CH4 over these vast, remote regions. We find that most of the chemical heterogeneity is captured at the resolution used in current global chemistry models and that the majority of reactivity occurs in the
hottest20 % of parcels.
The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission built a climatology of the chemical composition...
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