High Spatio-Temporal-Resolution Processes Diagnosed with Constituent Profiles: Lidars, Balloonsondes, Aircraft, and Theoretical Models

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2018)

Special Issue Editor

Department of Atmospheric Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
Interests: tropospheric ozone profile measurements with lidars and ozonesondes; retrievals from satellite instruments; atmospheric photochemical modeling; ozone trend analyses

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Atmospheric pollution results from complex interactions of emissions, chemistry, and dynamics.  The planetary boundary layer (PBL) interacts with the free troposphere (FT) in a diurnally varying pattern of entrainment, detrainment, and PBL circulations (eddies). This PBL/FT interaction establishes a physical connection between regional (FT) and local (PBL) air masses. Likewise, the tropopause defines the region of interaction between the troposphere and stratosphere, which supplies a significant amount of ozone to the troposphere. Because many of these interactions occur at relatively short time and space scales along with complex emission sources and topography, they challenge our empirical and theoretical capabilities to describe them. Ozonesonde flights have a long history of characterizing the vertical distribution of ozone, water vapor and temperature. These soundings provide valuable information to diagnose the processes resulting in these vertical snapshots of the atmosphere. More recently, NO2 sondes are contributing to our understanding of the distribution of pollutants. LiDARs (currently measuring O3, NO2, water vapor, aerosols, temperature, and winds) operate from a unique vantage point in their ability to measure some atmospheric constituents in very high spatio-temporal resolution. In-situ aircraft measurements provide another transect through the atmosphere. These measurement abilities provide critical information for diagnosing the complex processes responsible for surface-PBL, PBL-FT, and FT-stratospheric interactions along with observations of the 4-D evolution of some constituents within the atmospheric domains. This Special Issue of Atmosphere invites science papers (not instrument or validation papers) focused on LiDAR, sonde, and aircraft measurements and the theoretical understanding of those measurements to describe the complex atmospheric processes resulting in surface-level pollution.

Prof. Dr. Michael J. Newchurch
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • LiDAR, balloonsonde, and aircraft measurements of atmospheric constituents
  • Modeling of surface-PBL-Free Troposphere-Stratosphere interactions
  • Regional-local interactions of pollution
  • Attribution of pollution
  • Boundary Layer and Free Troposphere processes affecting surface pollution

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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