edu.ucar.opensky::articles:17629 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T03:02:29.126542 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d71837vf NO₂ seasonal evolution in the north subtropical free troposphere 2015-09-25T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d71837vf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10567-2015 Gil-Ojeda, M. author Navarro-Comas, M. author Gómez-Martín, L. author Adame, J. author Saiz-Lopez, A. author Cuevas, J. author González, Y. author Puentedura, O. author Cuevas, E. author Lamarque, Jean-François author Kinnison, Douglas E. author Tilmes, Simone author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Three years of multi-axis differential optical absorption spectroscopy (MAXDOAS) measurements (2011-2013) have been used for estimating the NO₂ mixing ratio along a horizontal line of sight from the high mountain subtropical observatory of Izaña, at 2370 m a.s.l. (NDACC station, 28.3° N, 16.5° W). The method is based on horizontal path calculation from the O₂-O₂ collisional complex at the 477 nm absorption band which is measured simultaneously to the NO₂ column density, and is applicable under low aerosol-loading conditions. The MAXDOAS technique, applied in horizontal mode in the free troposphere, minimizes the impact of the NO₂ contamination resulting from the arrival of marine boundary layer (MBL) air masses from thermally forced upwelling breeze during middle hours of the day. Comparisons with in situ observations show that during most of the measuring period, the MAXDOAS is insensitive or very slightly sensitive to the upwelling breeze. Exceptions are found for pollution events during southern wind conditions. On these occasions, evidence of fast, efficient and irreversible transport from the surface to the free troposphere is found. Background NO₂ volume mixing ratio (vmr), representative of the remote free troposphere, is in the range of 20-45 pptv. The observed seasonal evolution shows an annual wave where the peak is in phase with the solar radiation. Model simulations with the chemistry-climate CAM-Chem model are in good agreement with the NO2 measurements, and are used to further investigate the possible drivers of the NO₂ seasonality observed at Izaña. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. None eng geoscientificInformation