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The carbon monoxide tape recorder
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Read, W. Douglass, A. R. Duncan, B. N. Livesey, N. Waters, J. Filipiak, M. Schoeberl, M. R. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | Using Aura MLS data we have identified the stratospheric tape recorder in carbon monoxide (CO). Unlike the water vapor tape recorder, which is controlled by upper troposphere processes, the CO tape recorder is linked to seasonal biomass burning. Since CO has a lifetime of only a few months, the CO tape recorder barely extends above 20 km. The tape head for CO appears to be close to 360K near the same location as the water vapor tape head [Read et al, 20041. Both tape heads are below the equatorial cold point tropopause but above the base of the tropical tropopause layer. The tape recorder signal becomes more distinct from 360K to 380K suggesting that convective detrainment of plays a decreasingly important role with altitude. The Global Modeling Initiative chemical transport model forced by the climatology of biomass burning reproduces the CO tape recorder. |
| File Size | 3497400 |
| Page Count | 9 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20060012306 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3qv8h23b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2006-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Environment Pollution Tape Recorders Simulation Annual Variations Biomass Burning Microwave Sounding Stratosphere Aura Spacecraft Perturbation Carbon Monoxide Dehydration Water Vapor Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Uars Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
