Response of tropical stratospheric O3, NO2 and NO3 to the equatorial Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and to temperature as seen from GOMOS/ENVISAT
- Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
- Date de publi. : 01/01/2010
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Auteurs :
Alain HauchecorneJean-Loup BertauxFrancis DalaudierPhilippe KeckhutPerrine LemennaisSlimane BekkiMarion MarchandJean-Claude LebrunErkki KyröläJohanna TamminenViktoria F. SofievaDidier FussenF. VanhellemontOdile Fanton d'AndonGilbert BarrotLaurent BlanotThorsten FehrLidia Saavedra de Miguel
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Organismes :
STRATO - LATMOS
STRATO - LATMOS
STRATO - LATMOS
STRATO - LATMOS
STRATO - LATMOS
STRATO - LATMOS
STRATO - LATMOS
Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique
Analytic and Computational Research, Inc. - Earth Sciences
Analytic and Computational Research, Inc. - Earth Sciences
Analytic and Computational Research, Inc. - Earth Sciences
European Space Research Institute
European Space Research Institute
- Publié dans Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics le 31/10/2020
Résumé : The stellar occultation spectrometer GOMOS (Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars) on ESA's Envisat satellite measures vertical profiles O
3, NO
2 and NO
3 with a high long-term stability due to the self-calibrating nature of the technique. More than 6 years of GOMOS data from August 2002 to end 2008 have been analysed to study the inter-annual variation of O
3, NO
2 and NO
3 in the tropics. It is shown that the QBO of the equatorial wind induces variations in the local concentration larger than 10% for O
3 and larger than 25% for NO
2. Quasi-Biennial Oscillation signals can be found in the evolution of the three constituents up to at least 45 km. We found that NO
3 is positively correlated with temperature up to 40 km in the region where it is in chemical equilibrium with O
3. Above 40 km, NO
3 is no more in equilibrium during night and its concentration is correlated with both O
3 and NO
2. For O
3 and NO
2, our results confirm the existence of a transition from a dynamical control of O
3 below 28 km with O
3 correlated with NO
2 and temperature and a chemical/temperature control between 28 and 38 km with O
3 anti-correlated with NO
2 and temperature. Above 38 km and up to 50 km a regime never described before is found with both O
3 and NO
2 anti-correlated with temperature. For the NO
2/temperature anti-correlation, our proposed explanation is the modulation of the N
2O ascent in the upper stratosphere by the QBO and the modulation of the Brewer-Dobson circulation. The oxidation of N
2O is the main source of NO
y in this altitude region. An enhancement of the ascending motion will cool adiabatically the atmosphere and will increase the amount of N
2O concentration available for NO
y formation.
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