A note on the diurnal averaging of aeronomical models

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Jan 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978jatp...40...13t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, vol. 40, Jan. 1978, p. 13-20.

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Aeronomy, Atmospheric Models, Diurnal Variations, Photochemical Reactions, Atmospheric Composition, Concentration (Composition), Dynamic Models, Nitric Oxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Oxygen, Ozone, Reaction Kinetics

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An approximate technique for diurnally time-averaging atmospheric photochemical-dynamical models which eliminates the need for a detailed numerical resolution of sunrise and sunset transitions is developed. The scheme is equivalent to scaling certain chemical rate constants and photodissociation coefficients by appropriate aeronomical factors. To calculate the scaling factors, diurnal variations are parameterized with a step-function behavior, assuming that each species has a constant day-time and night-time concentration whose ratio can be determined by analyzing the chemical interactions occurring after sunset. The solution accounts for the effects of night-time reactions on the 24 h average values of species abundances, and on the average daily rates of the catalytic processes consuming ozone in the stratosphere. The accuracy of the technique is demonstrated by comparing its predictions to those of a full diurnal simulation; typically, the precision is better than 10%. By contrast, it is shown that the use of some other well-known computational schemes can result in significantly larger predictive errors.

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