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Articles | Volume 25, issue 21
Articles | Volume 25, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-14987-2025
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 21
Research article
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06 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 06 Nov 2025

Enhancement of O3–CO ratios at tropospheric subtropical latitudes: Photochemistry and stratospheric influence

Linda Ort, Andrea Pozzer, Peter Hoor, Florian Obersteiner, Andreas Zahn, Thomas B. Ryerson, Chelsea R. Thompson, Jeff Peischl, Róisín Commane, Bruce Daube, Ilann Bourgeois, Jos Lelieveld, and Horst Fischer

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Mission: ESMVal Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/14

Mission: OMO Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/0

Mission: WISE Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/96

Mission: CAFE Africa Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/98

Mission: SouthTRAC Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/116

Mission: CAFE Brazil Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/135

Mission: PHILEAS Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/138

Mission: CAFE Pacific Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/140

FAIROmeta F. Obersteiner https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11275355

ATom: Merged atmospheric chemistry, trace gases, and aerosols S. Wofsy et al. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1581

Supporting data for: Enhancement of O3 – CO ratios at tropospheric subtropical latitudes: Photochemistry and stratospheric influence Linda Ort and Andrea Pozzer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17476643

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This study investigates the role of lightning emissions on the O3–CO ratio in the northern subtropics. We used in situ observations and a global circulation model to show an effect of up to 40 % onto the subtropical O3–CO ratio by tropical air masses transported via the Hadley cell. This influence of lightning emissions and its photochemistry has a global effect on trace and greenhouse gases and needs to be considered for global chemical distributions.
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