Budgets of reactive nitrogen, hydrocarbons, and ozone over the Amazon forest during the wet season

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Sep 1990

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, Sept. 20, 1990, p. 16737-16754.

Physics

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Amazon Region (South America), Atmospheric Composition, Canopies (Vegetation), Nitric Oxide, Planetary Boundary Layer, Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Monoxide, Hydrocarbons, Nitrogen, Ozone, Photochemical Reactions

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The atmospheric composition over the Amazon forest during the wet season is simulated with a one-dimensional photochemical model for the planetary boundary layer (PBL) extending from the ground to 2000-m altitude. The model is constrained and evaluated using observations from the Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment 2B field expedition. Results indicate that only about 20 percent of NO(x) emitted by soils is exported to the atmosphere above the forest canopy. The balance is deposited to vegetation before leaving the canopy layer. The small NO(x) flux that escapes from the canopy is nevertheless sufficient to account for the low NO concentrations observed in the PBL. Soil emission can account for only a portion of NO(y) observed over the forest. Organic nitrates of nonbiogenic origin likely account for the balance of NO(y). Enhancements of CO observed in the PBL appear to reflect direct emission of CO by the forest ecosystem. Concentrations of O3 in the PBL are regulated largely by transport from aloft and deposition to the canopy, with little net influence from photochemistry. Ozone is photochemically produced immediately above the forest where NO concentrations are relatively high, but is photochemically consumed in the upper portion of the PBL.

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