FRSGC/UCI/UIO Contributions to TRACE-P

This page briefly documents contributions from University of California, Irvine, UCI, the Frontier Research System for Global Change, FRSGC, and the University of Oslo, UIO, to the NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment project TRACE-P (TRAnsport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific).

Project Proposal Summary (from GTE site)

Contributions

• Pre-campaign
  Assessing the influence of long-range transport and different source regions and types on air arriving over the campaign region by using inert and e-folding tracers with GCM meteorology.

• Chemical climatologies
  Providing a 3-D chemical climatology for springtime in East Asia based on meteorology from previous years, including detailed chemical budget diagnostics; in conjunction with forecast meteorology, this may be used as a zeroth-order forecast technique to aid in flight-planning.

• Post-campaign
  Deriving detailed chemical budgets for the period, and comparing with observations to determine how different source regions and emission types affect the tropospheric oxidizing capacity over the region.

• Chinese Urban Air Quality Data
  Daily plots of urban air quality data from China, available each evening. This will provide supplementary material that may aid flight planning by revealing dust storms, pollution episodes, etc.