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Research article
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27 May 2021
Research article |
| 27 May 2021
| 27 May 2021
Central role of nitric oxide in ozone production in the upper tropical troposphere over the Atlantic Ocean and western Africa
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Clara M. Nussbaumer
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Birger Bohn
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Hartwig Harder
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Daniel Marno
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Monica Martinez
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Florian Obersteiner
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Uwe Parchatka
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Andrea Pozzer
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Earth System Physics section, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Roland Rohloff
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Martin Zöger
Flight Experiments, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Jos Lelieveld
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Climate and Atmosphere Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Horst Fischer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
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Short summary
Although mechanisms of tropospheric ozone (O3) formation are well understood, studies reporting on ozone formation derived from field measurements are challenging and remain sparse in number. We use airborne measurements to quantify nitric oxide (NO) and O3 distributions in the upper troposphere over the Atlantic Ocean and western Africa and compare our measurements to model simulations. Our results show that NO and ozone formation are greatest over the tropical areas of western Africa.
Although mechanisms of tropospheric ozone (O3) formation are well understood, studies reporting...
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