Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7439-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7439-2018
Research article
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29 May 2018
Research article |  | 29 May 2018

Spatial and temporal variability of interhemispheric transport times

Xiaokang Wu, Huang Yang, Darryn W. Waugh, Clara Orbe, Simone Tilmes, and Jean-Francois Lamarque

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The seasonal and interannual variability of transport times from northern mid-latitudes into the southern hemisphere is examined using simulations of age tracers. The largest variability occurs near the surface close to the tropical convergence zones, but the peak is further south and there is a smaller tropical–extratropical contrast for tracers with more rapid loss. Hence the variability of trace gases in the southern extratropics will vary with their chemical lifetime.
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