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Processes affecting tropospheric ozone over africa
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Thompson, Anne M. Diab, Roseanne D. |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Description | This is a Workshop Report prepared for Eos, the weekly AGU magazine, The workshop took place between 26-28 January 2004 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa and was attended by 26 participants (http//www.geography.und.ac.za). Considerable progress has been made in ozone observations except for northern Africa (large data gaps) and west Africa (to be covered by the French-sponsored AMMA program). The present-day ozone findings were evaluated and reviewed by speakers using Aircraft data (MOZAIC program), NASA satellites (MOPITT, TRMM, TOMS) and ozone soundings (SHADOZ). Besides some ozone gaps, there are challenges posed by the need to assess the relative strengths of photochemical and dynamic influences on the tropospheric ozone budget. Biogenic, biofuels, biomass burning sources of ozone precursors remain highly uncertain. Recent findings (by NASA's Chatfield and Thompson, using satellite and sounding data) show significant impact of Indian Ocean pollution on African ozone. European research on pollutants over the Mediterranean and the middle east, that suggests that ozone may be exported to Africa from these areas, also needs to be considered. |
| File Size | 5674387 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20040082091 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t4mm1908n |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2004-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Photochemical Reactions Contaminants Indian Ocean Biomass Burning Africa Satellite Sounding Troposphere Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Ozone Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
