Present-day distribution and trends of global tropospheric ozone from satellite observations: Results from the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR)

Audrey Gaudel 1 Owen R. Cooper 1 Brice Barret 2 Anne Boynard 3 Cathy Clerbaux 4 Pierre-François Coheur 4 Guanyu Huang 5 Daniel Hurtmans 4 Brian Kerridge 6 Barry Latter 6 Eric Le Flochmoën 2 Xiong Liu 5 Jessica L. Neu 7 Richard Siddans 6 Catherine Wespes 4 Helen Marie Worden 8 Jerald R. Ziemke 9
1 ESRL - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
2 LA - Laboratoire d'aérologie
3 TROPO - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
4 Spectroscopie de l'atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique
5 CfA - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
6 RAL - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
7 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8 NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder]
9 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract : Tropospheric ozone is a greenhouse gas and pollutant detrimental to human health and crop and ecosystem productivity. Since 1990 a large portion of the anthropogenic emissions that react in the atmosphere to produce ozone have shifted from North America and Europe to Asia. This rapid shift, coupled with limited ozone monitoring in developing nations, has left scientists unable to answer the most basic questions: Is ozone continuing to decline in nations with strong emission controls? To what extent is ozone increasing in the developing world? IGAC’s Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) has been designed to answer these questions and this presentation will show the results from the TOAR-Climate initiative, focusing on the present-day distribution and trends of global tropospheric ozone from satellite observations. Five satellite products based on OMI (2 products using two different retrieval methods) and IASI (also 2 products using two different retrieval methods) and the OMI/MLS combined product were intercompared. An important result is the close agreement among the five products regarding the quantification of the total mass of all tropospheric ozone, the so called tropospheric ozone burden (TOB). The mean estimate for TOB between 60° N and 60° S is 296 Tg, with all products agreeing within ± 4%. However, on a regional basis the five satellite products have notable differences and there is no agreement in terms of ozone trends over the past decade. Continuing work is exploring the causes of these differences.
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Audrey Gaudel, Owen R. Cooper, Brice Barret, Anne Boynard, Cathy Clerbaux, et al.. Present-day distribution and trends of global tropospheric ozone from satellite observations: Results from the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR). AGU 2017 Fall Meeting, Dec 2017, New Orleans, United States. ⟨insu-01675250⟩

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