Vertically resolved dust optical properties during SAMUM: Tinfou compared to Ouarzazate     

By BIRGIT HEESE  DIETRICH ALTHAUSEN  TILMAN DINTER  MICHAEL ESSELBORN  THOMAS MÜLLER  MATTHIAS TESCHE  MATTHIAS WIEGNER 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(1):195-205

Vertical profiles of dust key optical properties are presented from measurements during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment (SAMUM) by Raman and depolarization lidar at two ground-based sites and by airborne high spectral resolution lidar. One of the sites, Tinfou, is located close to the border of the Sahara in Southern Morocco and was the main in situ site during SAMUM. The other site was Ouarzazate airport, the main lidar site. From the lidar measurements the spatial distribution of the dust between Tinfou and Ouarzazate was derived for 1 d. The retrieved profiles of backscatter and extinction coefficients and particle depolarization ratios show comparable dust optical properties, a similar vertical structure of the dust layer, and a height of about 4 km asl at both sites. The airborne cross-section of the extinction coefficient at the two sites confirms the low variability in dust properties. Although the general picture of the dust layer was similar, the lidar measurements reveal a higher dust load closer to the dust source. Nevertheless, the observed intensive optical properties were the same. These results indicate that the lidar measurements at two sites close to the dust source are both representative for the SAMUM dust conditions.  相似文献   

The 30–60-day oscillation in the East Asian summer monsoon and its time-dependent association with the ENSO     

By KYUNG-SOOK YUN  BAOHUA REN  KYUNG-JA HA  JOHNNY C. L. CHAN  JONG-GHAP JHUN 《地球，A辑:动力气象学与海洋学》2009,61(5):565-578

Based on 30–60-day oscillation in the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM), the relationship between its northward propagation and ENSO (El Niño and Southern Oscillation) was investigated. To explicitly describe the 30–60-day monsoonal evolution, an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis was carried out on the temporal-latitude section of the longitudinal average for 115°E–120°E. The principal 30–60-day EASM mode captures a northward propagation of well-organized intraseasonal oscillation (NISO). Using the associated time series of the first mode, we found a significant lagged correlation between interannual variability of the NISO and ENSO. Its lagged correlations with NINO indices have a quasi-biennial (QB) characteristic through the preceding summer and the concurrent summer. Their relationship was found by the regression analysis relating the low-level circulation to the ocean temperature. The western North Pacific anticyclone and the anticyclone-induced easterly vertical wind shear anomalies induce the dynamical linkage between the NISO and QB-type ENSO. It is shown that the NISO is more closely tied with QB-type ENSO in its phase than in its amplitude, and may be connected to the anomalous easterly wind and the eastward evolution of an oceanic Kelvin wave, which is associated with abrupt ENSO transition. The predictability on ENSO and NISO is examined through the canonical correlation analysis.  相似文献   

A comment on 'Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to global warming. Part I: model description and role of heat generated by organic matter decomposition' by D. V. Khvorostyanov et al. (2008)     

By L. KUTZBACH 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(3):577-578

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Soil investigations, offshore mid Norway: A case study of glacial influence on geotechnical properties     

Joar Sttem  Leif Rise  Kre Rokoengen  Trond By 《Global and Planetary Change》1996,12(1-4)

Fine-grained glaciomarine and glacial deposits on the outer Mid Norwegian continental shelf show complex variations in shear strength and degree of consolidation. At the Smørbukk Sør field (approx. 65°N, 7°E) about 80 m of variably overconsolidated clayey till is found on top of normally- or possibly underconsolidated glaciomarine and marine sediments. A high gas content is found below 60 m, and the porewater in the rather soft sediments in the lower part of the borehole may have been partly trapped by gas hydrates when the overlying hard till was deposited. The variations in geotechnical properties of the 80 m thick till section are suggested to result mainly from compaction below grounded ice during the last glaciation, and we interpret the strength variations in the till to reflect shifts between freeze of sediment porewater onto the base of the ice causing highly overconsolidated intervals, and thermal equilibrium or melting at the ice sole resulting in intervals of softer till.A large ridge northwest of Smørbukk (Skjoldryggen) is probably partly formed by ice push during ice flow oscillations at the same time as the described till at Smørbukk was deposited. This ridge retarded the ice flow and hence the frictional heating at the end of surges, creating pulses of net freezing base ice and consolidation of the substratum. The described process has possibly affected a wide area up-ice of Skjoldryggen, and may be common in areas with a complex glacial history and a fine-grained substratum.  相似文献   

Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

By VOLKER FREUDENTHALER  MICHAEL ESSELBORN  MATTHIAS WIEGNER  BIRGIT HEESE  MATTHIAS TESCHE  ALBERT ANSMANN  DETLEF MÜLLER  DIETRICH ALTHAUSEN  MARTIN WIRTH  REAS FIX  GERHARD EHRET  PETER KNIPPERTZ  CARLOS TOLEDANO  JOSEF GASTEIGER  MARKUS GARHAMMER  MEINHARD SEEFELDNER 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(1):165-179

Vertical profiles of the linear particle depolarization ratio of pure dust clouds were measured during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment (SAMUM) at Ouarzazate, Morocco (30.9°N, –6.9°E), close to source regions in May–June 2006, with four lidar systems at four wavelengths (355, 532, 710 and 1064 nm). The intercomparison of the lidar systems is accompanied by a discussion of the different calibration methods, including a new, advanced method, and a detailed error analysis. Over the whole SAMUM periode pure dust layers show a mean linear particle depolarization ratio at 532 nm of 0.31, in the range between 0.27 and 0.35, with a mean Ångström exponent (AE, 440–870 nm) of 0.18 (range 0.04–0.34) and still high mean linear particle depolarization ratio between 0.21 and 0.25 during periods with aerosol optical thickness less than 0.1, with a mean AE of 0.76 (range 0.65–1.00), which represents a negative correlation of the linear particle depolarization ratio with the AE. A slight decrease of the linear particle depolarization ratio with wavelength was found between 532 and 1064 nm from 0.31 ± 0.03 to 0.27 ± 0.04.  相似文献   

Ice nuclei characteristics from M-PACE and their relation to ice formation in clouds   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

By ANTHONY J. PRENNI  PAUL J. DEMOTT  DAVID C. ROGERS  SONIA M. KREIDENWEIS  GREG M. MCFARQUHAR  GONG ZHANG  MICHAEL R. POELLOT 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(2):436-448

This paper presents airborne measurements of ice nuclei (IN) number concentration and elemental composition from the mixed-phase Arctic cloud experiment (M-PACE) in northern Alaska during October 2004. Although the project average IN concentration was low, less than 1 L⁻¹ STP, there was significant spatial and temporal variability, with local maximum concentrations of nearly 60 L⁻¹ STP. Immersion and/or condensation freezing appear to be the dominant freezing mechanisms, whereas mechanisms that occur below water saturation played a smaller role. The dominant particle types identified as IN were metal oxides/dust (39%), carbonaceous particles (35%) and mixtures of metal oxides/dust with either carbonaceous components or salts/sulphates (25%), although there was significant variability in elemental composition. Trajectory analysis suggests both local and remote sources, including biomass burning and volcanic ash. Seasonal variability of IN number concentrations based on this study and data from SHEBA/FIRE-ACE indicates that fall concentrations are depleted relative to spring by about a factor of five. Average IN number concentrations from both studies compare favorably with cloud ice number concentrations of cloud particles larger than 125 μm, for temperatures less than −10 °C. Cloud ice number concentrations also were enhanced in spring, by a factor of ∼2, but only over a limited temperature range.  相似文献   

Seasonal variation of the molecular hydrogen uptake by soils inferred from continuous atmospheric observations in Heidelberg, southwest Germany   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

By SAMUEL HAMMER  INGEBORG LEVIN 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(3):556-565

The dominant sink of atmospheric molecular hydrogen (H₂) is its enzymatic destruction in soils. Quantitative estimates of the global sink strength, as derived from bottom-up process studies, are, however, still associated to large uncertainties. Here we present an alternative way to estimate atmosphere-to-soil flux densities, respectively deposition velocities of H₂, based on atmospheric H₂ and ²²²Rn observations in the boundary layer. Two and a half years of continuous measurements from a polluted site in the Rhine-Neckar area have been evaluated and night-time flux densities were calculated for situations of strong nocturnal boundary layer inversions using the Radon-Tracer Method. The influences from local anthropogenic combustion sources could be detected and successfully separated by parallel measurements of carbon monoxide. Inferred daily uptake fluxes in the Heidelberg catchment area range from 0.5 to 3 × 10⁻⁸ g H₂ m⁻² s⁻¹ with a mean value of (1.28 ± 0.31) × 10⁻⁸ g H₂ m⁻² s⁻¹. Uptake rates are about 25% larger during summer than during winter, when soil moisture is high, and diffusive transport of H₂ into the soil is inhibited. The mean deposition velocity is 3.0 ± 0.7 × 10⁻² cm s⁻¹_, which is very well in line with direct measurements on similar soil types in Europe and elsewhere.  相似文献   

Aircraft study of aerosol vertical distributions over Beijing and their optical properties   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

By PENGFEI LIU  CHUNSHENG ZHAO  QIANG ZHANG  ZHAOZE DENG  MENGYU HUANG  XINCHENG MA  XUEXI TIE 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(5):756-767

A set of 152 vertical profiles of aerosol number concentration and size distribution with diameter ranging from 0.12 to 3.0 μm observed by the airborne optical spectrometer probe in Beijing, China, between February 2005 and September 2006 is analysed and discussed. The statistic of aerosol number concentration ( N _a) reveals a high aerosol number density in this region with average surface level number concentration ( N ₀) of about 6600 cm⁻³ (0.12–3.0 μm). The average vertical profile of N _a approximately satisfies an exponential decline function with a scale height of 1419 m. The N _a profiles are influenced by the structures of planetary boundary layer (PBL) significantly and two typical types of N _a profile under different conditions of PBL are presented and parametrized in this study. The observations of aerosol size distribution show that, in most cases the aerosol size distributions are not very sensitive to altitude, with effective radii ranging from 0.16 to 0.28 μm. Comparison between aircraft-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer-derived AOD shows good agreement. The Mie model calculations suggest that the surface level number concentration, the PBL height and the structure of PBL can influence the AOD significantly.  相似文献   

Size distribution, mass concentration, chemical and mineralogical composition and derived optical parameters of the boundary layer aerosol at Tinfou, Morocco, during SAMUM 2006     

By K. KANDLER  L. SCHÜTZ  C. DEUTSCHER  M. EBERT  H. HOFMANN  S. JÄCKEL  R. JAENICKE  P. KNIPPERTZ  K. LIEKE  A. MASSLING  A. PETZOLD  A. SCHLADITZ  B. WEINZIERL  A. WIEDENSOHLER  S. ZORN  S. WEINBRUCH 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2009,61(1):32-50

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A recent build-up of atmospheric CO₂ over Europe. Part 1: observed signals and possible explanations     

By MICHEL RAMONET  PHILIPPE CIAIS  TUULA AALTO  CÉLINE AULAGNIER  FRÉDÉRIC CHEVALLIER  DOMENICO CIPRIANO  THOMAS J. CONWAY  LASZLO HASZPRA  VICTOR KAZAN  FRANK MEINHARDT  JEAN-DANIEL PARIS  MARTINA SCHMIDT  PETER SIMMONDS  IRÈNE XUEREF-RÉMY  JAROSLAW N. NECKI 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2010,62(1):1-13

We analysed interannual and decadal changes in the atmospheric CO₂ concentration gradient (ΔCO₂) between Europe and the Atlantic Ocean over the period 1995–2007. Fourteen measurement stations are used, with Mace-Head being used to define background conditions. The variability of ΔCO₂ reflects fossil fuel emissions and natural sinks activity over Europe, as well as atmospheric transport variability. The mean ΔCO₂ increased by 1–2 ppm at Eastern European stations (∼30% growth), between 1990–1995 and 2000–2005. This built up of CO₂ over the continent is predominantly a winter signal. If the observed increase of ΔCO₂ is explained by changes in ecosystem fluxes, a loss of about 0.46 Pg C per year would be required during 2000–2005. Even if severe droughts have impacted Western Europe in 2003 and 2005, a sustained CO₂ loss of that magnitude is unlikely to be true. We sought alternative explanations for the observed CO₂ build-up into transport changes and into regional redistribution of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions. Boundary layer heights becoming shallower can only explain 32% of the variance of the signal. Regional changes of emissions may explain up to 27% of the build-up. More insights are given in the Aulagnier et al. companion paper.  相似文献