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dc.contributor.authorHollaway, M.
dc.contributor.authorArnold, S.
dc.contributor.authorCollins, Bill
dc.contributor.authorFolberth, G.
dc.contributor.authorRap, A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T07:56:41Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T07:56:41Z
dc.date.created2018-05-18T00:23:23Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationHollaway, M. and Arnold, S. and Collins, B. and Folberth, G. and Rap, A. 2017. Sensitivity of midnineteenth century tropospheric ozone to atmospheric chemistry-vegetation interactions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 122 (4): pp. 2452-2473.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66935
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/2016JD025462
dc.description.abstract

We use an Earth System model (HadGEM2-ES) to investigate the sensitivity of midnineteenth century tropospheric ozone to vegetation distribution and atmospheric chemistry-vegetation interaction processes. We conduct model experiments to isolate the response of midnineteenth century tropospheric ozone to vegetation cover changes between the 1860s and present day and to CO 2 -induced changes in isoprene emissions and dry deposition over the same period. Changes in vegetation distribution and CO 2 suppression of isoprene emissions between midnineteenth century and present day lead to decreases in global isoprene emissions of 19% and 21%, respectively. This results in increases in surface ozone over the continents of up to 2 ppbv and of 2-6 ppbv in the tropical upper troposphere. The effects of CO 2 increases on suppression of isoprene emissions and suppression of dry deposition to vegetation are small compared with the effects of vegetation cover change. Accounting for present-day climate in addition to present-day vegetation cover and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations leads to increases in surface ozone concentrations of up to 5 ppbv over the entire northern hemisphere (NH) and of up to 8 ppbv in the NH free troposphere, compared with a midnineteenth century control simulation. Ozone changes are dominated by the following: (1) the role of isoprene as an ozone sink in the low NO x midnineteenth century atmosphere and (2) the redistribution of NO x to remote regions and the free troposphere via PAN (peroxyacetyl nitrate) formed from isoprene oxidation. We estimate a tropospheric ozone radiative forcing of 0.264 W m -2 and a sensitivity in ozone radiative forcing to midnineteenth century to present-day vegetation cover change of -0.012 W m -2 .

dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleSensitivity of midnineteenth century tropospheric ozone to atmospheric chemistry-vegetation interactions
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume122
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage2452
dcterms.source.endPage2473
dcterms.source.issn0148-0227
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Geophysical Research: Planets
curtin.departmentSchool of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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