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Impact of aerosol optics on vertical distribution of ozone in autumn over Yangtze River Delta
Shuqi Yan
Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210041, China
Bin Zhu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of
China Meteorological Administration, Key Laboratory of Meteorological
Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), Special Test Field of National
Integrated Meteorological Observation, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Shuangshuang Shi
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of
China Meteorological Administration, Key Laboratory of Meteorological
Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), Special Test Field of National
Integrated Meteorological Observation, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Wen Lu
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of
China Meteorological Administration, Key Laboratory of Meteorological
Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), Special Test Field of National
Integrated Meteorological Observation, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Jinhui Gao
Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information
Technology, Chengdu 610225, China
Hanqing Kang
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of
China Meteorological Administration, Key Laboratory of Meteorological
Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), Special Test Field of National
Integrated Meteorological Observation, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Duanyang Liu
Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210041, China
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We analyze ozone response to aerosol mixing states in the vertical direction by WRF-Chem simulations. Aerosols generally lead to turbulent suppression, precursor accumulation, low-level photolysis reduction, and upper-level photolysis enhancement under different underlying surface and pollution conditions. Thus, ozone decreases within the entire boundary layer during the daytime, and the decrease is the least in aerosol external mixing states compared to internal and core shell mixing states.
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