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Trebs, I. [Author]; Mayol-Bracero, O.L. [Author]; Pauliquevis, T. [Author]; Kuhn, U. [Author]; Sander, R. [Author]; Ganzeveld, L. [Author]; Meixner, F.X. [Author]; Kesselmeier, J. [Author]; Artaxo, P. [Author]; Andreae, M.O. [Author]

Impact of the Manaus urban plume on trace gas mixing ratios near the surface in the Amazon Basin: Implications for the NO-NO2-O3 photostationary state and peroxy radical levels

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Impact of the Manaus urban plume on trace gas mixing ratios near the surface in the Amazon Basin: Implications for the NO-NO2-O3 photostationary state and peroxy radical levels
  • Contributor: Trebs, I. [Author]; Mayol-Bracero, O.L. [Author]; Pauliquevis, T. [Author]; Kuhn, U. [Author]; Sander, R. [Author]; Ganzeveld, L. [Author]; Meixner, F.X. [Author]; Kesselmeier, J. [Author]; Artaxo, P. [Author]; Andreae, M.O. [Author]
  • imprint: Union, 2012
  • Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research 117, D05307 (2012). doi:10.1029/2011JD016386
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016386
  • ISSN: 0148-0227; 0141-8637
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  • Description: We measured the mixing ratios of NO, NO2, O-3, and volatile organic carbon as well as the aerosol light-scattering coefficient on a boat platform cruising on rivers downwind of the city of Manaus (Amazonas State, Brazil) in July 2001 (Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia-Cooperative LBA Airborne Regional Experiment-2001). The dispersion and impact of the Manaus plume was investigated by a combined analysis of ground-based (boat platform) and airborne trace gas and aerosol measurements as well as by meteorological measurements complemented by dispersion calculations (Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model). For the cases with the least anthropogenic influence (including a location in a so far unexplored region similar to 150 km west of Manaus on the Rio Manacapuru), the aerosol scattering coefficient, sigma(s), was below 11 Mm(-1), NOx mixing ratios remained below 0.6 ppb, daytime O-3 mixing ratios were mostly below 20 ppb and maximal isoprene mixing ratios were about 3 ppb in the afternoon. The photostationary state (PSS) was not established for these cases, as indicated by values of the Leighton ratio, Phi, well above unity. Due to the influence of river breeze systems and other thermally driven mesoscale circulations, a change of the synoptic wind direction from east-northeast to south-southeast in the afternoon often caused a substantial increase of ss and trace gas mixing ratios (about threefold for sigma(s), fivefold for NOx, and twofold for O-3), which was associated with the arrival of the Manaus pollution plume at the boat location. The ratio F reached unity within its uncertainty range at NOx mixing ratios of about 3 ppb, indicating "steady-state" conditions in cases when radiation variations, dry deposition, emissions, and reactions mostly involving peroxy radicals (XO2) played a minor role. The median midday/afternoon XO2 mixing ratios estimated using the PSS method range from 90 to 120 parts per trillion (ppt) for the remote cases (sigma(s) < 11 Mm(-1) and ...
  • Access State: Open Access