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Constraints On The Production of Nitric Oxide by Lightning As Inferred From Satellite Observations
Constraints On The Production of Nitric Oxide by Lightning As Inferred From Satellite Observations
Constraints On The Production of Nitric Oxide by Lightning As Inferred From Satellite Observations
Randall Martin
Dalhousie University
SCIAMACHY
Tropospheric NO2 Columns
ACE-FTS
Limb HNO3 in Upper Troposphere
OMI & MLS
Both instruments onboard Aura satellite
Tropospheric O3
Lightning
Global: 6.0 Tg N yr-1
Tropics: 4.4 Tg N yr-1
Nov - Apr
NO
/NO2
w Altitude
May - Oct
Retrieval Uncertainty
±(5x1014 molec cm-2 + 30%)
NO
/NO2
with altitude
Boundary
hv
Layer
NO NO2 Ozone (O3)
O3, RO2 lifetime ~ days
NOx lifetime < day
HNO3
Meridional Average
HNO3 With
Lightning Fraction of Focus on
(6±2 Tg N yr-1) HNO3 from 200-350 hPa
Lightning
No Lightning
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
OMI/MLS
O3 Retrieval Error
< 5 Dobson Units
Tropospheric O3 (Dobson Units) Martin et al., 2007
Lightning NOx Dominant Source for Tropical Tropospheric Ozone
Sensitivity to decreasing NOx emissions by 1% for each source
DJF 6 Tg N/yr 6 Tg N/yr 6 Tg N/yr
MAM
JJA
SON
ΔDU
Acknowledgements
CFCAS and NASA