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INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT EXPERIMENT –NORTH AMERICA (INTEX-NA, or INTEX). Recent Milestones: May 2002: Go-ahead from NASA July 2002: meeting with NOAA/AL (ITCT-2K4) 4-5 September 2002: joint INTEX-ITCT-2K4-COBRA planning meeting - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT EXPERIMENT –INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT EXPERIMENT –NORTH AMERICA (INTEX-NA, or INTEX)NORTH AMERICA (INTEX-NA, or INTEX)
Recent Milestones:
• May 2002: Go-ahead from NASA
• July 2002: meeting with NOAA/AL (ITCT-2K4)
• 4-5 September 2002: joint INTEX-ITCT-2K4-COBRA planning meeting
• 15 September: revised white paper (Singh, Jacob, Pfister) for Aura Collaborative Science Strategy Document (Anderson)
(1) To quantify the outflow of climatically important trace gases and aerosols (CIGAs) from North
America to the Atlantic, and relate this outflow to our understanding of North American sources and
sinks;
(2) To understand the chemical evolution of the North American outflow over the Atlantic, and assess
the implications for global influence and intercontinental transport of pollution;
(3) To quantify the transpacific transport of Asian pollution to North America.and its implications for
surface air quality.
INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT EXPERIMENT – INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT EXPERIMENT – NORTH AMERICA (INTEX)NORTH AMERICA (INTEX)
OBJECTIVES:
TWO AIRCRAFT: NASA DC-8 and P-3B
TWO PHASES: A (Jun-Jul 2004) and B (Mar-Apr 2006)
INTEGRATED OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INTEXINTEGRATED OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INTEX
Pacific inflow
Outflow to Atlantic,chemical aging
NORTH AMERICAA priori estimates of surface sources/sinks
BL
FT Processing, ventilation,scavenging
LINK WITHITCT-2K4, COBRA
TRANSPACFICPOLLUTIONINFLUENCE
GLOBALINFLUENCE
TOP-DOWN ESTIMATESOF SOURCES, SINKS
LINK WITH ITOP, DLR
TRANSATLANTICPOLLUTION INFLUENCE
LINK WITH CNRS/SA
LINK WITH TERRA, ENVISAT,
AQUA, AURA, OCO (phase B)
Satellite validation
INTEX OPERATIONAL SITES (PHASE A)INTEX OPERATIONAL SITES (PHASE A)
St. Louis, MODC-8 and P-3B
Pease AFB, NHDC-8, joint
with ITCT-2K4 (NOAA P-3B)
Wallops, VAP-3B
Seattle, WADC-8 overnight site
Edwards AFB, CADC-8 overnight
Eastern U.S. transects
N Atlanticoutflow
Chemicalaging
PBL ventilation,deep convection,
fire plumes
Transcontinentaltransects
PRIORITY CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS FOR INTEXPRIORITY CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS FOR INTEX
• Priority 1 (mission critical): O3 (in situ and remote), aerosols (remote), H2O, CO2, CO
• Priority 2 (very important): NO, NO2, PAN, HNO3, NOy, CH4, N2O, speciated hydrocarbons, halocarbons, peroxides, carbonyls, OH, HO2, RO2, SO2, H2SO4, aerosol composition, size distribution, optical properties
• Priority 3 (important): Organic nitrates, single particle composition, radionuclides, alcohols, H2O (remote)
• Priority 5 (exploratory): NH3, HNO2, HNO4
No distinction of priorities between DC-8 and P-3B payloads
WHAT IS AMMA? (formerly WAM)WHAT IS AMMA? (formerly WAM)
African Monsoon Multidimensional Analysis-OR/OU –
Analyse Multidimensionelle de la Mousson Africaine
• Multiyear monsoon dynamics experiment led by France/UK/Germany/U.S. • International Science Plan presently being written(U.S. lead: Chris Thorncroft, SUNYA)• Focus in wet season and shoulders (Apr-Oct) •First operational phase: Apr-Oct 2005
Plan for an “AMMA-dry” (Jan-Feb) led by radiation/chemistry community:• Interaction of biomass burning, dust, other continental influences• Validation of Aura, Parasol, Calipso, Cloudsat is strong focus• Leads: D. Tanre (France), J. Haywood (UK), M. Wendisch (Germany)• U.S. interest: radiation (Y. Kaufman, S. Ackerman), chemistry (Jacob, Browell, Brune, Crawford, Logan, Singh,…) - draft white paper available - • Timing: Jan-Feb 2005 or 2006• European resources: Mystere 20, BA-e146 aircraft, lidars, ground/island sites• High-altitude aircraft (e.g., WB-57) is crucial
NASA COMPONENT OF AMMA:NASA COMPONENT OF AMMA:an AURA collaborative science missionan AURA collaborative science mission
OBJECTIVES:• To understand the interactions between biomass burning, the biosphere, human activity, lightning, and dust in determining tropospheric ozone and aerosol production over western Africa;
• To understand the mechanisms for outflow of ozone, aerosols, and their precursors from western Africa to the global troposphere;
• To characterize the transatlantic transport of this outflow;
• To provide Aura tropospheric validation data in a complex and highly variable tropical environment where TOMS appears to experience difficulties.
TWO PHASES:• Winter mission (Jan-Feb) with emphasis on biomass burning (top priority)• Summer mission (Jun-Aug) with emphasis on monsoon and dust
PLATFORMS: WB-57 (essential), DC-8 (desirable)
Dust
SavannaAnthropogenicBiofuel
Forest
Biomass Burning
Ocean
Monsoon Flux
Harmattan Flux
WESTERN AFRICA IS A PARTICULARLY ACTIVE WESTERN AFRICA IS A PARTICULARLY ACTIVE AND COMPLEX REGION OF THE TROPICSAND COMPLEX REGION OF THE TROPICS
Celine Mari, LA Toulouse
Biomass BurningLightning
ATSR FIRE COUNTS (1997)ATSR FIRE COUNTS (1997)Western Africa is one of the world’s most active Western Africa is one of the world’s most active
biomass burning regionsbiomass burning regions
LARGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODEL AND TOMS LARGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODEL AND TOMS TROPOSPHERIC OZONE COLUMNS OVER W. AFRICATROPOSPHERIC OZONE COLUMNS OVER W. AFRICA
GEOS-CHEM - 1997 TOMS (CCD)- 1997
JJA
SON
MAM
DJF
Martin et al. [2002]
LIS LIGHTNING FLASHES (2000)LIS LIGHTNING FLASHES (2000)Western Africa is one of the world’s most active Western Africa is one of the world’s most active
lightning regionslightning regions
DJF
JJA
WESTERN AFRICA IS ONE OF THE DUSTIEST WESTERN AFRICA IS ONE OF THE DUSTIEST REGIONS ON EARTHREGIONS ON EARTH
DUST OVER WESTERN AFRICA CAN HAVEDUST OVER WESTERN AFRICA CAN HAVECOMPLEX EFFECTS ON SATELLITE RETRIEVALSCOMPLEX EFFECTS ON SATELLITE RETRIEVALS
SeaWIFS “true-color” data (obtained from R. Husar)
INTEGRATED OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGYINTEGRATED OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGYFOR AMMA-dryFOR AMMA-dry
Aura: Ozone, CO, H2O,NO, NO2, HNO3,CH4, HCHO, … 3-D CTM forecasts
and analyses
WB-57 aircraft (+DC-8?)
SATELLITES
AIRCRAFT, SONDES, GROUNDMODELS
Strong links to AVE and TC3
Parasol, Calipso, Cloudsat…
European surface sites, lidars, aircraft