A comparison of anticyclone and trough influences on the vertical distribution of ozone and meteorological conditions during SAFARI-92

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 101, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 23809-23821

  Diab, R D ^a   Jury, M R ^b   Combrink, J ^a,c   Sokolic, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OZONE; SAFARI; TROUGH; VERTICAL PROFILE;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 0030368056     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jd01844     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Andreae, M.O., et al., Biomass burning in the global environment: First results from the IGAC/BIBEX field campaign START/TRACE-A/SAFARI-92, in Global Atmospheric-Biospheric Chemistry, edited by R.G. Prinn, pp. 83-101, Plenum Press, New York, 1994.
2. Bolton, D., The computation of equivalent potential temperature, Mon. Weather Rev., 108, 1046-1053, 1980.
3. Caboon, D.R., B.J. Stocks, J.S. Levine, W.R. Cofer, and K.P. O'Neill, Seasonal distribution of African savanna fires, Nature, 359, 812-815, 1992.
4. Climate Analysis Center, Climate diagnostics bulletin, 92/9, 92/10, Washington, D.C., 1992.
5. Connors, V.S., D.R. Cahoon Jr., H.G. Reichle, E.G. Brunke, M. Garstang, W. Seiler, and H.E. Scheel, Savanna burning and convective mixing in Southern Africa: Implications for CO emissions and transport, in Global Biomass Burning, edited by J.L. Levine, pp. 147-154, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1991.
6. Diab, R.D., A.M. Thompson, M. Zunckel, G. Coetzee, J. Combrink, G.E. Bodeker, J. Fishman, F. Sokolic, D. McNamara, C. Archer, and D. Nganga, Vertical ozone distribution over southern Africa and adjacent oceans during SAFARI-92, J. Geophys. Res., this issue.
7. Dickerson, R.R., et al., Thunderstorms: An important mechanism in the transport of air pollutants, Science, 235, 460-465, 1987.
8. Fishman, J., Tropospheric ozone from satellite total ozone measurements, in Tropospheric Ozone, edited by I.S.A. Isaksen, pp. 111-123, D. Reidel, Hingham, Mass., 1988.
9. Fishman, J., Probing planetary pollution from space, Environ. Sci. and Technol., 25, 612-621, 1991.
10. Fishman, J., and J.C. Larsen, The distribution of total ozone and stratospheric ozone in the tropics: Implications for the distribution of tropospheric ozone, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 6627-6634, 1987.
11. Fishman, J., C.E. Watson, and J.C. Larsen, The distribution of total ozone, stratospheric ozone, and tropospheric ozone at low latitudes deduced from satellite data sets, paper presented at Workshop on Tropospheric Ozone, Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, Univ. of Göttingen, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany, Aug. 1988.
12. Fishman, J., C.E. Watson, J.C. Larsen, and J.A. Logan, Distribution of tropospheric ozone determined from satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 3599-3618, 1990.
13. Fishman, J., K. Fakhruzzaman, B. Cros, and D. Nganga, Identification of widespread pollution in the southern hemisphere deduced from satellite analyses, Science, 252, 1693-1696, 1991.
14. Garstang, M., et al., Trace gas exchanges and convective transports over the Amazonian rain forest, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 1528-1550, 1988.
15. Garstang, M., P.D. Tyson, R. Swap, M. Edwards, P. Kallberg, and J.A. Lindesay, Horizontal and vertical transport of air over southern Africa, J. Geophys. Res., this issue.
16. Haagenson, P., and M.A. Shapiro, Isentropic trajectories for deviation of objectively analyzed meteorological parameters, technical note, Natl. Cent. for Atmos. Res., pp. 1-30, Boulder, Colo., 1979.
17. Jury, M.R., E. Brunke, and M. Schormann, Aircraft section measurements of meteorology and ozone in northern Namibia during SAFARI'92, J. Geophys. Res., this issue.
18. Lindesay, J.A., The Southern Oscillation and atmospheric circulation changes over Southern Africa, Ph.D. thesis, 284 pp., Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1988.
19. Newell, R.E., J.W. Kidson, D.G. Vincent, and G.J. Boer, The General Circulation of the Tropical Atmosphere and Interactions With Extratropical Latitudes, vol. II, 371 pp., MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972.
20. Pickering, K.E., J.R. Scala, A.M. Thompson, W.-K. Tao, and J. Simpson, A regional estimate of convective transport of CO from biomass burning, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19(3), 289-292, 1992a.
21. Pickering, K.E., A.M. Thompson, J.R. Scala, W.-K. Tao, R.R. Dickerson, and J. Simpson, Free tropospheric ozone production following entrainment of urban plumes into deep convection, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 17985-18000, 1992b.
22. Shapiro, M.A., Turbulent mixing within tropopause folds as a mechanism for the exchange of chemical constituents between the stratosphere and troposphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 994-1004, 1980.
23. Thompson, A.M., T. Zenker, G.E. Bodeker, and D.P. McNamara, Ozone over southern Africa: Patterns and influences. in SAFARI-92 Book, edited by J.A. Lindesay, M.O. Andreae, P.D. Tyson, and B. van Wilgen, Univ. of Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, in press, 1995.
24. Thompson, A.M., R.D. Diab, G.E. Bodeker, M. Zunckel, G.J.R. Coetzee, C.B. Archer, D.P. McNamara, K.E. Pickering, J. Combrink, J. Fishman, and D. Nganga, Ozone over southern Africa during SAFARI-92/Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry Near the Equator - Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res., this issue.