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Article Dans Une Revue Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Année : 2017

Global distribution of CO2 in the upper troposphere and stratosphere

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In this study, we construct a new monthly zonal mean carbon dioxide (CO2) distribution from the upper troposphere to the stratosphere over the 2000-2010 time period. This reconstructed CO2 product is based on a Lagrangian backward trajectory model driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis meteorology and tropospheric CO2 measurements. Comparisons of our CO2 product to extratropical in situ measurements from aircraft transects and balloon profiles show remarkably good agreement. The main features of the CO2 distribution include (1) relatively large mixing ratios in the tropical stratosphere; (2) seasonal variability in the extratropics, with relatively high mixing ratios in the summer and autumn hemisphere in the 15-20 km altitude layer; and (3) decreasing mixing ratios with increasing altitude from the upper troposphere to the middle stratosphere ( ∼ 35 km). These features are consistent with expected variability due to the transport of long-lived trace gases by the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation. The method used here to construct this CO2 product is unique from other modelling efforts and should be useful for model and satellite validation in the upper troposphere and stratosphere as a prior for inversion modelling and to analyse features of stratosphere-troposphere exchange as well as the stratospheric circulation and its variability.
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Mohamadou Diallo, Bernard Legras, Eric Ray, Andreas Engel, Juan A. Añel. Global distribution of CO2 in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017, 17, pp.3861-3878. ⟨10.5194/acp-17-3861-2017⟩. ⟨insu-03727076⟩
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