Aircraft measurements of ammonia and nitric acid in the lower troposphere

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Jun 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985georl..12..401l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 12, June 1985, p. 401-404.

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Ammonia, Annual Variations, Atmospheric Chemistry, Diurnal Variations, Nitric Acid, Troposphere, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Concentration (Composition), Photochemical Reactions

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The first simultaneous measurements of ammonia and nitric acid in the troposphere have been made from an aircraft using a tungsten oxide denuder system. Vertical profiles of NH3 and HNO3 taken over coastal Virginia and Maryland in March and September, 1983, at altitudes from 150 m to 3000 m, show mixing ratios that decrease with altitude. Ammonia profiles show substantial seasonal variation, while nitric acid profiles do not. Using the measured profiles and a one-dimensional photochemical model, lifetimes due to heterogeneous loss of one day for HNO3 and ten days for NH3 are calculated. In contrast, NH3 profiles up to 5300 m over the North Atlantic Ocean during August 1982 show mixing ratios that increase slightly with altitude. These data represent the first ammonia profiles measured over the ocean. It is suggested that the increase in NH3 with altitude is a result of an ammonia-rich continental air mass advected over the ocean, followed by the dissolution of NH3 in the marine boundary layer on water-covered sea salt particles.

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