edu.ucar.opensky::articles:17570 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T13:38:25.721272 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7668fh6 A complete dynamical ozone budget measured in the tropical marine boundary layer during PASE 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7668fh6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10874-011-9195-0 Conley, S. author Faloona, I. author Lenschow, Donald H. author Campos, Teresa author Heizer, Clifford G. author Weinheimer, Andrew author Cantrell, Chris A. author Mauldin, R. author Hornbrook, Rebecca author Pollack, Ilana author Bandy, A. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE) was field mission that took place aboard the NCAR C-130 airborne laboratory over the equatorial Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island (Kirimati, Republic of Kiribati) during August–September, 2007. Eddy covariance measurements of the ozone fluxes at various altitudes above the ocean surface, along with simultaneous mapping of the horizontal gradients provided a unique opportunity to observe all of the dynamical components of the ozone budget in this remote marine environment. The results of six daytime and two sunrise flights indicate that vertical transport into the marine boundary layer from above and horizontal advection by the tradewinds are both important source terms, while photochemical destruction consisting of 82% photolysis (leading to OH production), 11% reaction with HO2, and 7% reaction with OH provides the main sink. The overall photochemical lifetime of ozone in the marine boundary layer was found to be 6.5 days. Ocean uptake of ozone was observed to be fairly slow (mean deposition velocity of 0.024 ± 0.014 cm s−1) accounting for a diurnally averaged loss rate that was ∼30% as large as the net photochemical destruction. From the measurement of deposition velocity an ozone reactivity of ∼50 s−1 in seawater is inferred. Due to the unprecedented measurement accuracy of the dynamical budget terms, unobserved photochemistry was able to be deduced, leading to the conclusion that 3.9 ± 3.0 ppt (parts per trillion by volume) of NO is present on average in the daytime tropical marine boundary layer, broadly consistent with several previous studies in similar environments. It is estimated, however, that each ppt of BrO hypothetically present would counter each ppt of NO above the requisite 3.9 ppt needed for budget closure. The long-term budget of ozone is further analyzed in the buffer layer, between the boundary layer and free troposphere, and used to derive an entrainment velocity across the trade wind inversion of 0.51 ± 0.38 cm s−1. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright the Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com None eng geoscientificInformation