The Role of Convection in Tropical Ozone Trends (1998-2018) Based on SHADOZ Profiles
| dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Anne M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stauffer, Ryan M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Witte, Jacquelyn C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kollonige, Debra E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wargan, Krzysztof | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ziemke, Jerry R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-12T19:46:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-12T19:46:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06-18 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Quantifying variability in the lowermost stratosphere (LMS) is important because of feedbacks among changing temperature, dynamics and species like ozone. We used reprocessed Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes data from 1998-2018 in a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) model to analyze variability and trends in free tropospheric (FT) and LMS ozoneacross five well-distributed tropical regions. The MLR also computed trends in a proxy for convection as determined from laminae in each ozonesonde-radiosonde pair. Only the equatorial Americas exhibits statistically significant annual trends in FT or LMS ozone. At the other sites, ozonetrends occur in isolated layers during months when convection has changed, February-April or July-November. Our results imply that large FT ozone increases reported for populated tropical areas may be caused by growing pollution overlying smaller changes caused by perturbed dynamics. They also provide regional data for evaluating LMS ozonetrends based on zonal averages of often sparse satellite measurements | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Support is gratefully acknowledged from the NASA Upper Air Research Program (K. W. 268 Jucks, Program Manager), S-NPP and JPSS (J. F. Gleason, Project Scientist) and the NASA 269 Post-doctoral Program to RMS. We are grateful to O. R. Cooper (CIRES/NOAA-CSL) and W. 270 Randel (NCAR) for helpful comments. SHADOZ v06 profile data are available at 271 https://tropo.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz/Archive.html. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.1002/essoar.10503415.1 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 36 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.genre | preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2ga1v-fhay | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10503415.1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/26657 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. | en_US |
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| dc.title | The Role of Convection in Tropical Ozone Trends (1998-2018) Based on SHADOZ Profiles | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-0920 | en_US |