Coordinated profiling of stratospheric intrusions and transported pollution by the Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) and NASA Alpha Jet experiment (AJAX): Observations and comparison to HYSPLIT, RAQMS, and FLEXPART

A.O. Langford; R. J. Alvarez; Jérôme Brioude; Stéphanie Evan; L. T. Iraci; G. Kirgis; S. Kuang; T. Leblanc; M.J. Newchurch; R.B. Pierce; C.J. Senff; E.L. Yates

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Coordinated profiling of stratospheric intrusions and transported pollution by the Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) and NASA Alpha Jet experiment (AJAX): Observations and comparison to HYSPLIT, RAQMS, and FLEXPART

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Coordinated profiling of stratospheric intrusions and transported pollution by the Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) and NASA Alpha Jet experiment (AJAX): Observations and comparison to HYSPLIT, RAQMS, and FLEXPART

A.O. Langford, R. J. Alvarez, Jérôme Brioude, Stéphanie Evan, L. T. Iraci, G. Kirgis, S. Kuang, T. Leblanc, M.J. Newchurch, R.B. Pierce, …

Atmospheric environment (1994), Vol.174, pp.1-14

02/01/2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.11.031

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Ground-based lidars and ozonesondes belonging to the NASA-supported Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) are used in conjunction with the NASA Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX) to investigate the transport of stratospheric ozone and entrained pollution into the lower troposphere above the United States on May 24–25, 2013. TOLNet and AJAX measurements made in California, Nevada, and Alabama are compared to tropospheric ozone retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), to back trajectories from the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model, and to analyses from the NOAA/NESDIS Real-time Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS) and FLEXPART particle dispersion model. The measurements and model analyses show much deeper descent of ozone-rich upper tropospheric/lower stratospheric air above the Desert Southwest than above the Southeast, and comparisons to surface measurements from regulatory monitors reporting to the U.S. EPA Air Quality System (AQS) suggest that there was a much greater surface impact in the Southwest including exceedances of the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) of 0.075 ppm in both Southern California and Nevada. Our analysis demonstrates the potential benefits to be gained by supplementing the existing surface ozone network with coordinated upper air observations by TOLNet.

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Title: Subtitle: Coordinated profiling of stratospheric intrusions and transported pollution by the Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) and NASA Alpha Jet experiment (AJAX): Observations and comparison to HYSPLIT, RAQMS, and FLEXPART
Creators: A.O. Langford - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
R. J. Alvarez - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Jérôme Brioude - Météo-France
Stéphanie Evan - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
L. T. Iraci - Ames Research Center
G. Kirgis - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
S. Kuang - University of Alabama in Huntsville
T. Leblanc - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M.J. Newchurch - University of Alabama in Huntsville
R.B. Pierce - NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research
C.J. Senff - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
E.L. Yates - Ames Research Center
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Atmospheric environment (1994), Vol.174, pp.1-14
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.11.031
ISSN: 1352-2310
eISSN: 1873-2844
Number of pages: 14
Language: English
Date published: 02/01/2018
Academic Unit: Iowa Technology Institute
Record Identifier: 9984721114102771

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