Articles | Volume 22, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3675-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3675-2022
Research article
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17 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2022

Biomass burning pollution in the South Atlantic upper troposphere: GLORIA trace gas observations and evaluation of the CAMS model

Sören Johansson, Gerald Wetzel, Felix Friedl-Vallon, Norbert Glatthor, Michael Höpfner, Anne Kleinert, Tom Neubert, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber, and Jörn Ungermann

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Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on acp-2021-767', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Jan 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Sören Johansson, 02 Feb 2022
  • RC2: 'Review of “Biomass burning pollution in the South Atlantic upper troposphere: GLORIA trace gas observations and evaluation of the CAMS model” by Sören Johansson et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Jan 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Sören Johansson, 02 Feb 2022

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Sören Johansson on behalf of the Authors (02 Feb 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (14 Feb 2022) by Andreas Engel
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Short summary
We present GLORIA airborne cross sections of PAN, C2H6, HCOOH, CH3OH, and C2H4 in the South Atlantic UTLS in September/October 2019. Filamentary structures and a large plume were observed. Backward trajectories indicate that measured pollutants come from South America and central Africa. Comparisons to CAMS show structural agreement of the measured distributions. PAN absolute VMRs agree with the GLORIA measurements, C2H6 and HCOOH are simulated too low, and CH3OH and C2H4 are too high.
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