ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-9-573-2009 Ozone mixing ratios inside tropical deep convective clouds from OMI satellite measurements Ziemke J. R. 1 2 Joiner J. 2 Chandra S. 1 2 Bhartia P. K. 2 Vasilkov A. 3 Haffner D. P. 3 Yang K. 1 2 Schoeberl M. R. 2 Froidevaux L. 4 Levelt P. F. 5 Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Science System and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, USA NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, KNMI, De Bilt, The Netherlands 27 01 2009 9 2 573 583 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/573/2009/acp-9-573-2009.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/573/2009/acp-9-573-2009.pdf

We have developed a new technique for estimating ozone mixing ratio inside deep convective clouds. The technique uses the concept of an optical centroid cloud pressure that is indicative of the photon path inside clouds. Radiative transfer calculations based on realistic cloud vertical structure as provided by CloudSat radar data show that because deep convective clouds are optically thin near the top, photons can penetrate significantly inside the cloud. This photon penetration coupled with in-cloud scattering produces optical centroid pressures that are hundreds of hPa inside the cloud. We combine measured column ozone and the optical centroid cloud pressure derived using the effects of rotational-Raman scattering to estimate O<sub>3</sub> mixing ratio in the upper regions of deep convective clouds. The data are obtained from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard NASA's Aura satellite. Our results show that low O<sub>3</sub> concentrations in these clouds are a common occurrence throughout much of the tropical Pacific. Ozonesonde measurements in the tropics following convective activity also show very low concentrations of O<sub>3</sub> in the upper troposphere. These low amounts are attributed to vertical injection of ozone poor oceanic boundary layer air during convection into the upper troposphere followed by convective outflow. Over South America and Africa, O<sub>3</sub> mixing ratios inside deep convective clouds often exceed 50 ppbv which are comparable to mean background (cloud-free) amounts and are consistent with higher concentrations of injected boundary layer/lower tropospheric O<sub>3</sub> relative to the remote Pacific. The Atlantic region in general also consists of higher amounts of O<sub>3</sub> precursors due to both biomass burning and lightning. Assuming that O<sub>3</sub> is well mixed (i.e., constant mixing ratio with height) up to the tropopause, we can estimate the stratospheric column O<sub>3</sub> over clouds. Stratospheric column ozone derived in this manner agrees well with that retrieved independently with the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument and thus provides a consistency check of our method.

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