Atmospheric composition of West Africa: highlights from the AMMA international program

Celine H. Mari; Claire E. Reeves; Katherine S. Law; Gerard Ancellet; Maria Dolores Andres-Hernandez; Brice Barret; Joelle Bechara; Agnes Borbon; Idir Bouarar; Francesco Cairo; Roisin Commane; Claire Delon; Mathew John Evans; Federico Fierli; Cedric Floquet; Corinne Galy-Lacaux; Dwayne E. Heard; Carine D. Homan; Trevor Ingham; Niels Larsen; Alastair C. Lewis; Catherine Liousse; Jennifer G. Murphy; Emiliano Orlandi; David E. Oram; Marielle Saunois; Dominique Serca; David J. Stewart; Daniel Stone; Valerie Thouret; Peter van Velthoven; Jason E. Williams

doi:10.1002/asl.289

Atmospheric composition of West Africa: highlights from the AMMA international program

Celine H. Mari, Claire E. Reeves, Katherine S. Law, Gerard Ancellet, Maria Dolores Andres-Hernandez, Brice Barret, Joelle Bechara, Agnes Borbon, Idir Bouarar, Francesco Cairo, Roisin Commane, Claire Delon, Mathew John Evans, Federico Fierli, Cedric Floquet, Corinne Galy-Lacaux, Dwayne E. Heard, Carine D. Homan, Trevor Ingham, Niels LarsenAlastair C. Lewis, Catherine Liousse, Jennifer G. Murphy, Emiliano Orlandi, David E. Oram, Marielle Saunois, Dominique Serca, David J. Stewart, Daniel Stone, Valerie Thouret, Peter van Velthoven, Jason E. Williams

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The atmospheric composition of West Africa reflects the interaction of various dynamical and chemical systems (i.e. biogenic, urban, convective and long-range transport) with signatures from local to continental scales. Recent measurements performed during the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) observational periods in 2005 and 2006 provide new data which has allowed new insight into the processes within these systems that control the distribution of ozone and its precursors. Using these new data and recently published results, we provide an overview of these systems with a particular emphasis on ozone distributions over West Africa during the wet season. Copyright (C) 2010 Royal Meteorological Society

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13-18
Number of pages	6
Journal	Atmospheric Science Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.289
Publication status	Published - Jan 2011

Keywords

West Africa
AMMA
atmospheric chemistry
convection
long-range transport
biogenic emission
biomass burning
urban pollution
ozone
NITROGEN-OXIDE EMISSIONS
TROPOSPHERIC OZONE
WET SEASON
TRANSPORT
CHEMISTRY
AIRCRAFT
CAMPAIGN
COTONOU
IMPACT
SOILS

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Mari, C. H., Reeves, C. E., Law, K. S., Ancellet, G., Andres-Hernandez, M. D., Barret, B., Bechara, J., Borbon, A., Bouarar, I., Cairo, F., Commane, R., Delon, C., Evans, M. J., Fierli, F., Floquet, C., Galy-Lacaux, C., Heard, D. E., Homan, C. D., Ingham, T., ... Williams, J. E. (2011). Atmospheric composition of West Africa: highlights from the AMMA international program. Atmospheric Science Letters, 12(1), 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.289

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