1 Xun Jiang 1 , Moustafa Chahine 2 , Edward Olsen 2 , Luke Chen 2 , and Yuk Yung 3 Variability of Tropospheric & Stratospheric CO 2 From the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder 1 Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Houston 2 Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech 3 Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 13-17, 2010
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Xun Jiang 1 , Moustafa Chahine 2 , Edward Olsen 2 , Luke Chen 2 , and Yuk Yung 3
Variability of Tropospheric & Stratospheric CO 2 From the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder. Xun Jiang 1 , Moustafa Chahine 2 , Edward Olsen 2 , Luke Chen 2 , and Yuk Yung 3. 1 Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Houston 2 Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Xun Jiang1, Moustafa Chahine2, Edward Olsen2, Luke Chen2, and Yuk Yung3
Variability of Tropospheric & Stratospheric CO2 From the
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
1 Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Houston
Influences of El Niño on Mid-Trop CO2 From AIRS and MOZART-2
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TOP: AIRS detrended and deseasonalized CO2
anomaly averaged for 11 El Niño months
Jiang, X., M. T. Chahine, E. T. Olsen, L. L. Chen, and Y. L. Yung (2010), Interannual variability of mid-tropospheric CO2 from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L13801, doi:10.1029/2010GL042823
MIDDLE: AIRS detrended and deseasonalized CO2
anomaly averaged for 17 La Niña months
BOTTOM: AIRS CO2 anomaly difference (El Niño – La Niña) (Consistent with change in Walker Circulation)
TOP: MOZART-2 CO2 anomaly during El Niño
MIDDLE: MOZART-2 CO2 anomaly during La Niña
BOTTOM: MOZART-2 CO2 Difference (El Niño – La Niña) (signal is smaller than observed by AIRS)
NOTE: MOZART-2 results are preliminary. The boundary conditionis a climatology and does not include interannual variability
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Influence of El Niño/La Niña on AIRS CO2
Multiple regression method is applied to the AIRS CO2 data. We decompose CO2 concentrations to trend, annual cycle,
semi-annual cycle and ENSO signal.
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Data – AIRS Stratospheric CO2 Product
AIRS Stratospheric CO2 Sensitivity Peak: 15-30 hPa
• In the following slides, AIRS stratospheric CO2 is shown after subtracting the values of the tropical stratospheric CO2. So we can investigate the latitudinal variation of the age of stratospheric air.
• Averaged global growth rate of tropospheric CO2 is of 2 ppm/yr. The age of stratospheric air in years is approximated by dividing the Delta_CO2 by 2.
AIRS Stratospheric CO2
(CO2 after subtracting <CO2> for |lat| ≤ 4 °)
Jan 2003
Color Bar Range: -15 to +15 ppm; Black Contours: 30 hPa GPH
Stratospheric CO2 From Models(CO2 after subtracting <CO2> for |lat| ≤ 4 °)
3-D GEOS-Chem3-D IMATCH
3-D MOZART-2 3-D Carbon Tracker
Color Bar Range: -5 to +5 ppm
IMATCHMeteorology field onA hybrid-isentropic Coordinate
Flux BC
Resolution:2.8° x 2.8° (lat x lon)0–80 km
GEOS-ChemGEOS-4 Meteorology
Flux BC
Resolution:2° x 2.5° (lat x lon)0–70 km
MOZART-2ECMWF Interim
Flux BC
Resolution:2.8° x 2.8° (lat x lon)0–50 km
Carbon TrackerTM5 Transport Fields
Flux BC
Resolution:2° x 3° (lat x lon)0–80 km
CarbonTracker results are Provided by NOAA ESRL from http://carbontracker.noaa.gov
Significant spatiotemporal variability in the AIRS CO2.
Trend and seasonal cycle of AIRS CO2 agree well with those from CONTRAIL CO2.
Mid-tropospheric AIRS CO2 is modulated by the natural variability (e.g. El Niño).
AIRS stratospheric CO2 offer a new opportunity to constrain the models in the stratosphere.
References: Chahine et al., GRL, doi:2005GL024165, 2005.Chahine et al., GRL, doi:2008GL035022, 2008.Jiang et al., GBC, doi:2008GL035022, 2008.Jiang et al., GRL, doi:2010GL042823, 2010.Olsen et al., Manuscript In Preparation, 2011.