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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 33,
L23809,
4 PP., 2006
doi:10.1029/2006GL027726
Downward transport of ozone-rich air near Mt. Everest
ESPC State Key Laboratory, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
ESPC State Key Laboratory, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
ESPC State Key Laboratory, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
ESPC State Key Laboratory, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
ESPC State Key Laboratory, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
High ozone concentrations (70–80 ppb) were found from late afternoon to midnight at sites at ca. 5000 m above sea level (m.a.s.l.) on Mt. Everest. Observational data suggest that katabatic wind from Mt. Everest was “pumping down” ozone-rich air from the upper troposphere. Numerical modelling demonstrates that cooling of glaciers and snow on the northern mountain slopes and heating of the valley surface play important roles in forming katabatic winds and accelerating vertical exchange between the upper atmosphere and surface air. These results suggest that the “pump-down” mechanism at high mountains covered with snow/glaciers is an important process in terrestrial intercontinental transport of ozone and atmosphere–land exchanges of masses and energy.
Received 29 July 2006; accepted 3 November 2006; published 9 December 2006.
Citation: (2006), Downward transport of ozone-rich air near Mt. Everest, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L23809, doi:10.1029/2006GL027726.
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