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{"title":"The optical properties of stratospheric aerosol layer perturbation of the Hunga volcano eruption of January 15th, 2022","authors":"Pasquale Sellitto, Redha Belhadji, Bernard Legras, Aurélien Podglajen, Clair Duchamp","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1433","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> The Hunga volcano violently erupted on January 15th, 2022, and produced the largest stratospheric aerosol layer perturbation of the last 30 years. One notable effect of the Hunga eruption was the significant modification of the size distribution (SD) of the stratospheric aerosol layer with respect to background conditions and other recent moderate stratospheric eruptions, with larger mean particles size and smaller SD spread for Hunga. Starting from satellite-based SD retrievals, and the assumption of pure sulphate aerosol layers, in this work we calculate the optical properties of both background and Hunga-perturbed stratospheric aerosol scenarios using a Mie code. We found that the intensive optical properties of the stratospheric aerosol layer (i.e., single scattering albedo, asymmetry parameter, aerosol extinction per unit mass and the broad-band average Ångström exponent) were not significantly perturbed by the Hunga eruption, with respect to background conditions. The calculated Ångström exponent was found consistent with multi-instrument satellite observations of the same parameter. Thus, the basic impact of the Hunga eruption on the optical properties of the stratospheric aerosol layer was an increase of the stratospheric aerosol extinction (or optical depth), without any modification of the shortwave and longwave relative absorption, angular scattering and broad-band spectral trend of the extinction, with respect to background. This highlights a marked difference of the Hunga perturbation of the stratospheric aerosol layer and those from other larger stratospheric eruptions, like Pinatubo 1991 and El Chichon 1982. With simplified radiative forcing estimations, we show that the Hunga eruption produced an aerosol layer likely 3–10 times more effective in producing a net cooling of the climate system with respect to Pinatubo and El Chichon eruptions, due to more effective shortwave scattering. As intensive optical properties are seldom directly measured, e.g. from satellite, our calculations can support the estimation of radiative effects for the Hunga eruption with climate or offline radiative models.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141495812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disentangling the chemistry and transport impacts of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on stratospheric ozone","authors":"Jinbo Xie, Qi Tang, Michael Prather, Jadwiga Richter, Shixuan Zhang","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1927","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in tropical winds perturbs stratospheric ozone throughout much of the atmosphere via changes in transport of ozone and other trace gases and via temperature changes that alter chemical processes. Here we separate the temperature-driven changes using the Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 2 (E3SMv2) with linearized stratospheric ozone chemistry. E3SM produces a natural QBO cycle in winds, temperature, and ozone. Our analysis defines climatological QBO patterns of ozone for the period 1979–2020 using both nonlinear principal component analysis and monthly composites centered on QBO phase shift. As a climate model, E3SM cannot predict the timing of the phase shift, but it does match these climatological patterns. We develop an offline version of our stratospheric chemistry module to calculate the steady-state response of ozone to temperature and overhead ozone perturbations, assuming that other chemical families involved in ozone chemistry remain fixed. We find a clear demarcation: ozone perturbations in the upper stratosphere (above 20-hPa) are predicted by the steady-state response of the ozone column to the temperature changes; while those in the lower stratosphere show no temperature response and are presumably driven by circulation changes. These results are important for diagnosing model-model differences in the QBO-ozone responses for climate projections.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141495660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monitoring European anthropogenic NOx emissions from space","authors":"Ronald J. van der A, Jieying Ding, Henk Eskes","doi":"10.5194/acp-24-7523-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7523-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Since the launch of TROPOMI on the Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) satellite, NO2 observations have become available with a resolution of 3.5× 5 km, which makes monitoring NOx emissions possible at the scale of city districts and industrial facilities. For Europe, emissions are reported on an annual basis for country totals and large industrial facilities and made publicly available via the European Environment Agency (EEA). Satellite observations can provide independent and more timely information on NOx emissions. A new version of the inversion algorithm DECSO (Daily Emissions Constrained by Satellite Observations) has been developed for deriving emissions for Europe on a daily basis, averaged to monthly mean maps. The estimated precision of these monthly emissions is about 25 % for individual grid cells. These satellite-derived emissions from DECSO have been compared to the officially reported European emissions and spatial–temporal disaggregated emission inventories. The country total DECSO NOx emissions are close to the reported emissions and the emissions compiled by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Comparison of the spatially distributed NOx emissions of DECSO and CAMS showed that the satellite-derived emissions are often higher in cities, while they are similar for large power plants and slightly lower in rural areas.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141495700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of mineral dust on the global nitrate aerosol direct and indirect radiative effect","authors":"Alexandros Milousis, Klaus Klingmüller, Alexandra P. Tsimpidi, Jasper F. Kok, Maria Kanakidou, Athanasios Nenes, Vlassis A. Karydis","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1579","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> Nitrate (NO₃^-) aerosol is projected to increase dramatically in the coming decades and may become the dominant inorganic particle species. This is due to the continued strong decrease in SO₂ emissions, which is not accompanied by a corresponding decrease in NO_x and especially NH₃ emissions. Thus, the radiative effect (RE) of NO₃^- aerosol may become more important than that of SO₄^2- aerosol in the future. The physicochemical interactions of mineral dust particles with gas and aerosol tracers play an important role in influencing the overall RE of dust and non-dust aerosols but can be a major source of uncertainty due to their lack of representation in many global climate models. Therefore, this study investigates how and to what extent dust affects the current global NO₃^- aerosol radiative effect through both radiation (RE_ari) and cloud interactions (RE_aci) at the top of the atmosphere (TOA). For this purpose, multi-year simulations nudged towards the observed atmospheric circulation were performed with the global atmospheric chemistry and climate model EMAC, while the thermodynamics of the interactions between inorganic aerosols and mineral dust were simulated with the thermodynamic equilibrium model ISORROPIA-lite. The emission flux of the mineral cations Na⁺, Ca²⁺, K⁺ and Mg²⁺ is calculated as a fraction of the total aeolian dust emission based on the unique chemical composition of the major deserts worldwide. Our results reveal positive and negative shortwave and longwave radiative effects in different regions of the world via aerosol-radiation interactions and cloud adjustments. Overall, the NO₃^- aerosol direct effect contributes a global cooling of -0.11 W/m², driven by coarse-mode particle cooling at short wavelengths. Regarding the indirect effect, it is noteworthy that NO₃^- aerosol exerts a global mean warming of +0.17 W/m². While the presence of NO₃^- aerosol enhances the ability of mineral dust particles to act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), it simultaneously inhibits the formation of cloud droplets from the smaller anthropogenic particles. This is due to the coagulation of fine anthropogenic CCN particles with the larger nitrate-coated mineral dust particles, which leads to a reduction in total aerosol number concentration. This mechanism results in an overall reduced cloud albedo effect and is thus attributed as warming.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141495820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Constraining non-methane VOC emissions with TROPOMI HCHO observations: impact on summertime ozone simulation in August 2022 in China","authors":"Shuzhuang Feng, Fei Jiang, Tianlu Qian, Nan Wang, Mengwei Jia, Songci Zheng, Jiansong Chen, Fang Ying, Weimin Ju","doi":"10.5194/acp-24-7481-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7481-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), serving as crucial precursors of O3, have a significant impact on atmospheric oxidative capacity and O3 formation. However, both anthropogenic and biogenic NMVOC emissions remain subject to considerable uncertainty. Here, we extended the Regional multi-Air Pollutant Assimilation System (RAPAS) using the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) algorithm to optimize NMVOC emissions in China in August 2022 by assimilating TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) HCHO retrievals. We also simultaneously optimize NOx emissions by assimilating in situ NO2 observations to address the chemical feedback among VOCs–NOx–O3. Furthermore, a process-based analysis was employed to quantify the impact of NMVOC emission changes on various chemical reactions related to O3 formation and depletion. NMVOC emissions exhibited a substantial reduction of 50.2 %, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, revealing a prior overestimation of biogenic NMVOC emissions due to an extreme heat wave. Compared to the forecast with prior NMVOC emissions, the forecast with posterior emissions significantly improved HCHO simulations, reducing biases by 75.7 %, indicating a notable decrease in posterior emission uncertainties. The forecast with posterior emissions also effectively corrected the overestimation of O3 in forecasts with prior emissions, reducing biases by 49.3 %. This can be primarily attributed to a significant decrease in the RO2+NO reaction rate and an increase in the NO2+OH reaction rate in the afternoon, thus limiting O3 generation. Sensitivity analyses emphasized the necessity of considering both NMVOC and NOx emissions for a comprehensive assessment of O3 chemistry. This study enhances our understanding of the effects of NMVOC emissions on O3 production and can contribute to the development of effective emission reduction policies.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of host climate model on contrail cirrus effective radiative forcing estimates","authors":"Weiyu Zhang, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Cyril J. Morcrette, Wuhu Feng, Kalli Furtado, Paul R. Field, Chih-Chieh Chen, Andrew Gettelman, Piers M. Forster, Daniel R. Marsh, Alexandru Rap","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1573","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> Aviation is currently estimated to contribute ~3.5 % of the net anthropogenic effective radiative forcing (ERF) of Earth's atmosphere. The largest component of this forcing comes from contrail cirrus (also with a large associated uncertainty of ~70 %), estimated to be two times larger than the contribution from aviation CO₂ emissions. Here we implement the contrail parameterisation previously developed for the USA NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) in the UK Met Office Unified Model (UM). By using for the first time the same contrail parameterisation in two different host climate models, this work investigates the impact of key features of the host climate model on quantifying contrail cirrus radiative impacts. We find that differences in the background humidity (in particular ice supersaturation) in the two climate models lead to substantial differences in simulated contrail fractions, with UM values being two to three times as large as those from CAM. We also find contrasting responses in overall global cloud fraction due to air traffic, with contrails causing increases and decreases in total cloud fraction in the UM and in CAM, respectively. The different complexity of the two models’ cloud microphysics schemes (i.e. single and double-moment cloud schemes in the UM and CAM, respectively) results in significant differences in the simulated changes in cloud ice water content due to aviation. When accounting for the difference in cloud microphysics complexity, we estimate the contrail cirrus ERF of the year 2018 to be 40.8 mWm⁻² in the UM and 60.1 mWm⁻² in CAM. While these two estimates are not entirely independent, they indicate a substantial (i.e. factor of ~2) uncertainty in contrail cirrus ERF from differences in the microphysics and radiation schemes of the two host climate models. We also find a factor of 8 uncertainty in contrail cirrus ERF due to existing uncertainty in contrail cirrus optical depth. We suggest that future work on the contrail cirrus climate impact should focus on better representing the microphysical and radiative contrail characteristics in different climate models and on improved observational constraints.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141475189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pristine oceans control the uncertainty in aerosol–cloud interactions","authors":"Goutam Choudhury, Karoline Block, Mahnoosh Haghighatnasab, Johannes Quaas, Tom Goren, Matthias Tesche","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1863","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> Quantifying global cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations is crucial for reducing uncertainties in radiative forcing resulting from aerosol-cloud interactions. This study analyzes two novel, independent, open-source global CCN datasets derived from spaceborne Cloud Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) measurements and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) reanalysis and examines the spatio-temporal variability of CCN concentrations pertinent to liquid clouds. The results reveal consistent large-scale patterns in both CALIOP and CAMS datasets, although CALIOP values are approximately 79 % higher than those from CAMS. Comparisons with existing literature demonstrate that these datasets effectively bound the regionally observed CCN concentrations, with CALIOP typically representing the upper bound and CAMS the lower bound. Monthly and annual variations in CCN concentrations obtained from the two datasets largely agree over the Northern Hemisphere and align with previously reported variations. However, inconsistencies emerge over pristine oceans, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere, where the datasets show not only opposing seasonal changes but also contrasting annual trends. A closure study of trends in CCN and cloud droplet concentrations suggests that dust-influenced and pristine-maritime environments primarily limit our current understanding of CCN-cloud-droplet relationships. Long-term CCN observations in these regions are crucial for improving global datasets and advancing our understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"692 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141475203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Insights on ozone pollution control in urban areas by decoupling meteorological factors based on machine learning","authors":"Yuqing Qiu, Xin Li, Wenxuan Chai, Yi Liu, Mengdi Song, Xudong Tian, Qiaoli Zou, Wenjun Lou, Wangyao Zhang, Juan Li, Yuanhang Zhang","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1576","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> Ozone (O₃) pollution is posing significant challenges to urban air quality improvement in China. The formation of surface O₃ is intricately linked to chemical reactions which are influenced by both meteorological conditions and local emissions of precursors (i.e., NOx and VOCs). The atmospheric environment capacity decreases when meteorological conditions deteriorate, resulting in the accumulation of air pollutants. Although a series of emission reduction measures have been implemented in urban areas, the effectiveness of O₃ pollution control proves inadequate. Primarily due to adverse changes in meteorological conditions, the effects of emission reduction are masked. In this study, we integrated machine learning model, the observation-based model and the positive matrix factorization model based on four years of continuous observation data from a typical urban site. We found that transport and dispersion impact the distribution of O₃ concentration. During the warm season, positive contributions of dispersion and transport to O₃ concentration ranged from 12.9 % to 24.0 %. After meteorological normalization, the sensitivity of O₃ formation and the source apportionment of VOCs changed. The sensitivity of O₃ formation changed from the NOx-limited regime to the transition regime between VOC- and NOx-limited regimes during the O₃ pollution event. Vehicle exhaust became the primary source of VOC emissions after removing the effect of dispersion, contributing 41.8 % to VOCs during the pollution periods. On the contrary, the contribution of combustion to VOCs decreased from 33.7 % to 25.1 %. Our results provided new recommendations and insights for implementing O₃ pollution control measures and evaluating the effectiveness of emission reduction in urban areas.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"337 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characterization of biogenic volatile organic compounds and their oxidation products at a stressed pine forest close to a biogas power plant","authors":"Junwei Song, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Ralf Tillmann, Nicolas Brüggemann, Thomas Leisner, Harald Saathoff","doi":"10.5194/egusphere-2024-1768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1768","url":null,"abstract":"<strong>Abstract.</strong> In this study, we present real-time measurements of organic aerosol (OA) and biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) at a pine forest stressed by bark beetles and previous droughts close to a biogas power plant (BPP) in western Germany during June 2020. A proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with a particle inlet (CHARON-PTR-ToF-MS) and a Vocus-PTR-ToF-MS were deployed to measure OA and BVOCs. During the entire measurement period, the average concentration of monoterpenes (2.5 ± 5.3 ppb) was higher than isoprene (0.58 ± 0.54 ppb) and sesquiterpenes (0.01 ± 0.01 ppb). The OA composition mainly consisted of semi-volatile organic compounds formed from monoterpene oxidation. Based on a wind direction analysis, BVOC data were categorized into two groups with main influence from the<strong> </strong>BPP (WD-BPP) and the forest (WD-forest), respectively. In the WD-BPP group, high concentrations of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes were attributed to BPP emissions. In the WD-forest group, higher temperatures enhanced the biogenic emissions of isoprene, monoterpenes, and sesquiterpenes especially during daytime, exceeding their photochemical consumption. Positive matrix factorization analysis of VOCs revealed substantial contributions of gaseous organic acids from BVOC oxidation during daytime, while weakly oxidized monoterpene products dominated during nighttime. Moreover, increasing relative humidity promoted the gas-to-particle partitioning of gaseous weakly oxidized monoterpene products, leading to an increase of nighttime OA mass. This study highlights that the variations of BVOCs and their oxidation products are influenced by meteorology, local BPP emissions, and chemical transformation processes at this stressed forest.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141475288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measurement report: Combined use of MAX-DOAS and AERONET ground-based measurements in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the detection of distant biomass burning","authors":"Matías Osorio, Alejandro Agesta, Tim Bösch, Nicolás Casaballe, Andreas Richter, Leonardo M. A. Alvarado, Erna Frins","doi":"10.5194/acp-24-7447-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7447-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Biomass burning releases large amounts of aerosols and chemical species into the atmosphere, representing a major source of air pollutants. Emissions and by-products can be transported over long distances, presenting challenges in quantification. This is mainly done using satellites, which offer global coverage and data acquisition for places that are difficult to access. In this study, ground-based observations are used to assess the abundance of trace gases and aerosols. On 24 November 2020, a significant increase in formaldehyde was observed with a Multi-AXis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) instrument located in Montevideo (Uruguay), and its vertical column densities reached values of 2.4×1016 molec. cm−2, more than twice the values observed during the previous days. This was accompanied by an increase in the aerosol levels measured by an AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) photometer located at the same site. The aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 440 nm reached values close to 1, an order of magnitude larger than typical values in Montevideo. Our findings indicate that the increase was associated with the passage of a plume originating from distant biomass burning. This conclusion is supported by TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite observations as well as HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) simulations. The profiles of the gases and aerosols retrieved from the MAX-DOAS observations are consistent with the HYSPLIT analysis, showing the passage of a plume over Montevideo on 24 November located at a height of ∼ 1.5 km. This corroborates the finding that biomass burning events occurring about 800 km north of Montevideo can affect the local atmosphere through long-distance emissions transport. This study underscores the potential of ground-based atmospheric monitoring as a tool for detection of such events. Furthermore, it demonstrates greater sensitivity compared to satellite when it comes to detection of relatively small amounts of carbonyls like glyoxal and formaldehyde.","PeriodicalId":8611,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141475290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}