Articles | Volume 22, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5925-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5925-2022
Research article
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05 May 2022
Research article |  | 05 May 2022

Influence of convection on the upper-tropospheric O3 and NOx budget in southeastern China

Xin Zhang, Yan Yin, Ronald van der A, Henk Eskes, Jos van Geffen, Yunyao Li, Xiang Kuang, Jeff L. Lapierre, Kui Chen, Zhongxiu Zhen, Jianlin Hu, Chuan He, Jinghua Chen, Rulin Shi, Jun Zhang, Xingrong Ye, and Hao Chen

Data sets

Xin_ACP_2021_Convection_Effect_data Xin Zhang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5154798

The whole atmosphere community climate model version 6 (WACCM6) (https://www.acom.ucar.edu/waccm/download.shtml) A. Gettelman, M. J. Mills, D. E. Kinnison, R. R. Garcia, A. K. Smith, D. R. Marsh, S. Tilmes, F. Vitt, C. G. Bardeen, J. McInerny, H.-L. Liu, S. C. Solomon, L. M. Polvani, L. K. Emmons, J.-F. Lamarque, J. H. Richter, A. S. Glanville, J. T. Bacmeister, A. S. Phillips, R. B. Neale, I. R. Simpson, A. K. DuVivier, A. Hodzic, and W. J. Randel https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030943

The Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature version 2.1 (MEGAN2.1): an extended and updated framework for modeling biogenic emissions (https://www.acom.ucar.edu/wrf-chem/download.shtml) A. B. Guenther, X. Jiang, C. L. Heald, T. Sakulyanontvittaya, T. Duhl, L. K. Emmons, and X. Wang https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-5-1471-2012

Model code and software

S5P-WRFChem Xin Zhang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4682636

WRF-Chem-LDA-LFR Xin Zhang and Yunyao Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4682331

zxdawn/Xin_ACP_2021_Convection_Effect Xin Zhang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4945560

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Short summary
The importance of convection to the ozone and nitrogen oxides (NOx) produced from lightning has long been an open question. We utilize the high-resolution chemistry model with ozonesondes and space observations to discuss the effects of convection over southeastern China, where few studies have been conducted. Our results show the transport and chemistry contributions for various storms and demonstrate the ability of TROPOMI to estimate the lightning NOx production over small-scale convection.
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