The YAK-AEROSIB transcontinental aircraft campaigns: new insights on the transport of CO2, CO and O3 across Siberia |
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| Authors: | J-D PARIS P CIAIS P NÉDÉLEC M RAMONET B D BELAN M YU ARSHINOV G S GOLITSYN I GRANBERG A STOHL G CAYEZ G ATHIER F BOUMARD J-M COUSIN |
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| Institution: | Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL, Orme des Merisiers, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;;Laboratoire d'Aérologie, CNRS-UPS, Toulouse, France;;Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, SB-RAS, Tomsk, Russia;;Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia;;Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Two airborne campaigns were carried out to measure the tropospheric concentrations and variability of CO2, CO and O3 over Siberia. In order to quantify the influence of remote and regional natural and anthropogenic sources, we analysed a total of 52 vertical profiles of these species collected in April and September 2006, every ～200 km and up to 7 km altitude. CO2 and CO concentrations were high in April 2006 (respectively 385–390 ppm CO2 and 160–200 ppb CO) compared to background values. CO concentrations up to 220 ppb were recorded above 3.5 km over eastern Siberia, with enhancements in 500–1000 m thick layers. The presence of CO enriched air masses resulted from a quick frontal uplift of a polluted air mass exposed to northern China anthropogenic emissions and to fire emissions in northern Mongolia. A dominant Asian origin for CO above 4 km (71.0%) contrasted with a dominant European origin below this altitude (70.9%) was deduced both from a transport model analysis, and from the contrasted ΔCO/ΔCO2 ratio vertical distribution. In September 2006, a significant O3 depletion (～–30 ppb) was repeatedly observed in the boundary layer, as diagnosed from virtual potential temperature profiles and CO2 gradients, compared to the free troposphere aloft, suggestive of a strong O3 deposition over Siberian forests. |
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