Influence of tropical cyclones on tropospheric ozone: possible implications

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Description (Dublin Core)

The present study examines the role of tropical cyclones in the enhancement of tropospheric ozone. The most significant and new observation reported is the increase in the upper-tropospheric (10–16 km) ozone by 20–50 ppbv, which has extended down to the middle (6–10 km) and lower troposphere ( <  6 km). The descent rate of enhanced ozone layer during the passage of tropical cyclone is 0.8–1 km day<sup>−1</sup>, which is three times that of a clear-sky day (non-convective). Enhancement of surface ozone concentration by ∼ 10 ppbv in the daytime and 10–15 ppbv in the night-time is observed during a cyclone. Potential vorticity, vertical velocity and potential temperature obtained from numerical simulation, reproduces the key feature of the observations. A simulation study indicates the downward transport of stratospheric air into the troposphere. Space-borne observations of relative humidity indicate the presence of sporadic dry air in the upper and middle troposphere over the cyclonic region. These observations quantitatively constitute experimental evidence of redistribution of stratospheric ozone during cyclonic storms.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Das, Siddarth Shankar

Ratnam, Madineni Venkat

Uma, Kizhathur Narasimhan

Subrahmanyam, Kandula Venkata

Girach, Imran Asatar

Patra, Amit Kumar

Aneesh, Sundaresan

Suneeth, Kuniyil Viswanathan

Kumar, Karanam Kishore

Kesarkar, Amit Parashuram

Sijikumar, Sivarajan

Ramkumar, Geetha

Date (Dublin Core)

2018-09-19

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Text

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application/pdf

Identifier (Dublin Core)

10.5194/acp-16-4837-2016

https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/16/4837/2016/

Source (Dublin Core)

eISSN: 1680-7324

Language (Dublin Core)

eng

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