Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area
The nighttime boundary layer was studied in an urban area surrounded by tropical forest by use of a copter-type unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in central Amazonia during the wet season. Fifty-seven vertical profiles of ozone concentration, potential temperature, and specific humidity were collected f...
| Autor principal: | Guimarães, Patrícia Costa |
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| Outros Autores: | Ye, Jianhuai, Batista, Carla E., Barbosa, Rafael G., Ribeiro, Igor Oliveira, Medeiros, Adan Sady S., Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de, Martin, Scot T. |
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oai:repositorio:1-15497 Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area Guimarães, Patrícia Costa Ye, Jianhuai Batista, Carla E. Barbosa, Rafael G. Ribeiro, Igor Oliveira Medeiros, Adan Sady S. Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de Martin, Scot T. Antennas Boundary Layer Flow Forestry Mixing Ozone Ozone Layer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (uav) Above Ground Level Amazonia Boundary Layer Heights Chemical Transport Models Nighttime Boundary Layers Ozone Concentration Potential Temperature Temporal Resolution Boundary Layers Boundary Layer Concentration (composition) Heat Island Ozone Turbulent Mixing Unmanned Vehicle Urban Area Vertical Profile Amazonia The nighttime boundary layer was studied in an urban area surrounded by tropical forest by use of a copter-type unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in central Amazonia during the wet season. Fifty-seven vertical profiles of ozone concentration, potential temperature, and specific humidity were collected from surface to 500 m above ground level (a.g.l.) at high vertical and temporal resolutions by use of embedded sensors on the UAV. Abrupt changes in ozone concentration with altitude served as a proxy of nighttime boundary layer (NBL) height for the case of a normal, undisturbed, stratified nighttime atmosphere, corresponding to 40% of the cases. The median height of the boundary layer was 300 m. A turbulent mixing NBL constituted 28% of the profiles, while the median height of the boundary layer was 290 m. The remaining 32% of profiles corresponded to complex atmospheres without clear boundary layer heights. The occurrence of the three different cases correlated well with relative cloud cover. The results show that the standard nighttime model widely implemented in chemical transport models holds just 40% of the time, suggesting new challenges in modeling of regional nighttime chemistry. The boundary layer heights were also somewhat higher than observed previously over forested and pasture areas in Amazonia, indicating the important effect of the urban heat island. © 2019 by the authors. 2020-05-14T16:04:19Z 2020-05-14T16:04:19Z 2019 Artigo https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15497 10.3390/atmos10100599 en Volume 10, Número 10 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/ application/pdf Atmosphere |
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Antennas Boundary Layer Flow Forestry Mixing Ozone Ozone Layer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (uav) Above Ground Level Amazonia Boundary Layer Heights Chemical Transport Models Nighttime Boundary Layers Ozone Concentration Potential Temperature Temporal Resolution Boundary Layers Boundary Layer Concentration (composition) Heat Island Ozone Turbulent Mixing Unmanned Vehicle Urban Area Vertical Profile Amazonia |
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Antennas Boundary Layer Flow Forestry Mixing Ozone Ozone Layer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (uav) Above Ground Level Amazonia Boundary Layer Heights Chemical Transport Models Nighttime Boundary Layers Ozone Concentration Potential Temperature Temporal Resolution Boundary Layers Boundary Layer Concentration (composition) Heat Island Ozone Turbulent Mixing Unmanned Vehicle Urban Area Vertical Profile Amazonia Guimarães, Patrícia Costa Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area |
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Antennas Boundary Layer Flow Forestry Mixing Ozone Ozone Layer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (uav) Above Ground Level Amazonia Boundary Layer Heights Chemical Transport Models Nighttime Boundary Layers Ozone Concentration Potential Temperature Temporal Resolution Boundary Layers Boundary Layer Concentration (composition) Heat Island Ozone Turbulent Mixing Unmanned Vehicle Urban Area Vertical Profile Amazonia |
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The nighttime boundary layer was studied in an urban area surrounded by tropical forest by use of a copter-type unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in central Amazonia during the wet season. Fifty-seven vertical profiles of ozone concentration, potential temperature, and specific humidity were collected from surface to 500 m above ground level (a.g.l.) at high vertical and temporal resolutions by use of embedded sensors on the UAV. Abrupt changes in ozone concentration with altitude served as a proxy of nighttime boundary layer (NBL) height for the case of a normal, undisturbed, stratified nighttime atmosphere, corresponding to 40% of the cases. The median height of the boundary layer was 300 m. A turbulent mixing NBL constituted 28% of the profiles, while the median height of the boundary layer was 290 m. The remaining 32% of profiles corresponded to complex atmospheres without clear boundary layer heights. The occurrence of the three different cases correlated well with relative cloud cover. The results show that the standard nighttime model widely implemented in chemical transport models holds just 40% of the time, suggesting new challenges in modeling of regional nighttime chemistry. The boundary layer heights were also somewhat higher than observed previously over forested and pasture areas in Amazonia, indicating the important effect of the urban heat island. © 2019 by the authors. |
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Guimarães, Patrícia Costa |
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Ye, Jianhuai Batista, Carla E. Barbosa, Rafael G. Ribeiro, Igor Oliveira Medeiros, Adan Sady S. Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de Martin, Scot T. |
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Ye, Jianhuai Batista, Carla E. Barbosa, Rafael G. Ribeiro, Igor Oliveira Medeiros, Adan Sady S. Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de Martin, Scot T. |
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Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area |
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Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area |
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Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area |
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Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area |
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Vertical profiles of Ozone concentration collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area |
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vertical profiles of ozone concentration collected by an unmanned aerial vehicle and the mixing of the nighttime boundary layer over an amazonian urban area |
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Atmosphere |
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2020 |
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