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Research article
| 
07 Feb 2024
Research article |
| 07 Feb 2024
| 07 Feb 2024
Observationally constrained analysis of sulfur cycle in the marine atmosphere with NASA ATom measurements and AeroCom model simulations
Huisheng Bian
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
Chemistry and Dynamic Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Mian Chin
Chemistry and Dynamic Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Peter R. Colarco
Chemistry and Dynamic Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Eric C. Apel
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Donald R. Blake
Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, CA, USA
Karl Froyd
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Rebecca S. Hornbrook
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Jose Jimenez
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Pedro Campuzano Jost
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Michael Lawler
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, USA
Mingxu Liu
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Marianne Tronstad Lund
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
Hitoshi Matsui
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Benjamin A. Nault
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
now at: Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
now at: Center for Aerosol and Cloud Chemistry, Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA
Joyce E. Penner
Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Andrew W. Rollins
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Gregory Schill
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, USA
Ragnhild B. Skeie
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
Hailong Wang
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
now at: Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Kai Zhang
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Jialei Zhu
Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Data sets
ATom-AeroCom-Sulfur Huisheng Bian https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/anonftp/acd/tropo/bian/ATom-AeroCom-Sulfur/
ATom Ayuta Padhi and Marlyn Vasques https://espo.nasa.gov/atom/content/ATom
Model code and software
GEOS-ESM/GEOSgcm The NASA GMAO group https://github.com/GEOS-ESM/GEOSgcm/
Short summary
This work studies sulfur in the remote troposphere at global and seasonal scales using aircraft measurements and multi-model simulations. The goal is to understand the sulfur cycle over remote oceans, spread of model simulations, and observation–model discrepancies. Such an understanding and comparison with real observations are crucial to narrow down the uncertainties in model sulfur simulations and improve understanding of the sulfur cycle in atmospheric air quality, climate, and ecosystems.
This work studies sulfur in the remote troposphere at global and seasonal scales using aircraft...
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