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The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): Overview of pilot measurements on eco...
Andreae, Meinrat O.; Acevedo, Otávio C.; Araüjo, Alessandro Carioca de; Artaxo, Paulo; Barbosa, Cybelli G.G.; Barbosa, H. M. J.; Brito, Joel F.The Amazon Basin plays key roles in the carbon and water cycles, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, and biodiversity. It has already been changed significantly by human activities, and more pervasive change is expected to occur in the coming decades. It is therefore essential to establish long-term measurement sites that provide a baseline record of present-day climatic, biogeochemical, and atmospheric cond...
Planetary boundary layer evolution over the Amazon rainforest in episodes of de...
Oliveira, Maurício I.; Acevedo, Otávio C.; Sörgel, Matthias; Lima Nascimento, Ernani de; Manzi, Antônio Ocimar; Oliveira, Pablo E.S.In this study, high-frequency, multilevel measurements, performed from late October to mid-November of 2015 at a 80m tall tower of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) project in the central state of Amazonas, Brazil, were used to diagnose the evolution of thermodynamic and kinematic variables as well as scalar fluxes during the passage of outflows generated by deep moist convection (DMC). Outflow associate...
Atmospheric mixing ratios of methyl ethyl ketone (2-butanone) in tropical, bore...
Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Nölscher, Anke C.; Bourtsoukidis, Efstratios; Derstroff, Bettina; Zannoni, Nora; Gros, Valérie; Lanza, Matteo; Brito, Joel F.Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) enters the atmosphere following direct emission from vegetation and anthropogenic activities, as well as being produced by the gas-phase oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as n-butane. This study presents the first overview of ambient MEK measurements at six different locations, characteristic of forested, urban and marine environments. In order to understand better th...
Dimethyl sulfide in the Amazon rain forest
Jardine, Kolby J.; Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Williams, Jonathan C.; Kunert, Norbert; Jardine, Angela B.; Taylor, Tyeen C.; Abrell, Leif; Artaxo, PauloSurface-to-atmosphere emissions of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) may impact global climate through the formation of gaseous sulfuric acid, which can yield secondary sulfate aerosols and contribute to new particle formation. While oceans are generally considered the dominant sources of DMS, a shortage of ecosystem observations prevents an accurate analysis of terrestrial DMS sources. Using mass spectrometry, we quantif...
Acridicon-chuva campaign: Studying tropical deep convective clouds and precipit...
Wendisch, Manfred; Pöschl, Ulrich; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Machado, Luiz Augusto Toledo; Albrecht, Rachel I.; Schlager, Hans; Rosenfeld, DanielComprehensive in situ and remote sensing observations of deep convective clouds using the new German research jet aircraft HALO have been performed over Amazonia to study the influence of anthropogenic aerosols on the cloud life cycle and precipitation formation processes. © 2016 American Meteorological Society.
CCN activity and organic hygroscopicity of aerosols downwind of an urban region...
Thalman, Ryan M.; Sá, Suzane S. de; Palm, Brett B.; Barbosa, H. M. J.; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Alexander, Michael Lizabeth; Brito, Joel F.; Carbone, SamaraDuring the Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) campaign, size-resolved cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) spectra were characterized at a research site (T3) 60 km downwind of the city of Manaus, Brazil, in central Amazonia for 1 year (12 March 2014 to 3 March 2015). Particle hygroscopicity (κCCN) and mixing state were derived from the size-resolved CCN spectra, and the hygroscopici...
Nighttime wind and scalar variability within and above an Amazonian canopy
Oliveira, Pablo E.S.; Acevedo, Otávio C.; Sörgel, Matthias; Tsokankunku, Anywhere; Wolff, Stefan; Araüjo, Alessandro Carioca deNocturnal turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and fluxes of energy, CO2 and O3 between the Amazon forest and the atmosphere are evaluated for a 20-day campaign at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) site. The distinction of these quantities between fully turbulent (weakly stable) and intermittent (very stable) nights is discussed. Spectral analysis indicates that low-frequency, nonturbulent fluctuations are res...
Aerosol measurement methods to quantify spore emissions from fungi and cryptoga...
Löbs, Nina; Barbosa, Cybelli G.G.; Brill, Sebastian; Walter, David; Ditas, Florian; Oliveira Sá, Marta de; Araüjo, Alessandro Carioca deBioaerosols are considered to play a relevant role in atmospheric processes, but their sources, properties, and spatiotemporal distribution in the atmosphere are not yet well characterized. In the Amazon Basin, primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) account for a large fraction of coarse particulate matter, and fungal spores are among the most abundant PBAPs in this area as well as in other vegetated cont...
Introduction: Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5)
Martin, Scot T.; Artaxo, Paulo; Machado, Luiz Augusto Toledo; Manzi, Antônio Ocimar; Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de; Schumacher, Courtney J.The Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) Experiment was carried out in the environs of Manaus, Brazil, in the central region of the Amazon basin for 2 years from 1 January 2014 through 31 December 2015. The experiment focused on the complex interactions among vegetation, atmospheric chemistry, and aerosol production on the one hand and their connections to aerosols, clouds, and p...
Long-term study on coarse mode aerosols in the Amazon rain forest with the freq...
Morán-Zuloaga, Daniel; Ditas, Florian; Walter, David; Saturno, Jorge; Brito, Joel F.; Carbone, Samara; Chi, Xuguang; Hrab? de Angelis, Isabella<p>In the Amazonian atmosphere, the aerosol coarse mode comprises a complex, diverse, and variable mixture of bioaerosols emitted from the rain forest ecosystem, long-range transported Saharan dust (we use Sahara as shorthand for the dust source regions in Africa north of the Equator), marine aerosols from the Atlantic Ocean, and coarse smoke particles from deforestation fires. For the rain forest, the coarse m...