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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-7053-2021
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Research article
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10 May 2021
Research article |
| 10 May 2021
| 10 May 2021
Assessing and improving cloud-height-based parameterisations of global lightning flash rate, and their impact on lightning-produced NOx and tropospheric composition in a chemistry–climate model
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Australia
Ian E. Galbally
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Australia
Matthew T. Woodhouse
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Australia
Nathan Luke Abraham
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Short summary
Lightning-generated nitrogen oxides (LNOx) greatly influence tropospheric photochemistry. The most common parameterisation of lightning flash rate used to calculate LNOx in global composition models underestimates measurements over the ocean by a factor of 20–25. We formulate and validate an alternative parameterisation to remedy this problem. The new scheme causes an increase in the ozone burden by 8.5 % and the hydroxyl radical by 13 %, and these have implications for climate and air quality.
Lightning-generated nitrogen oxides (LNOx) greatly influence tropospheric photochemistry. The...
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