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Unexpected seasonality in quantity and composition of Amazon rainforest air rea...
Nölscher, Anke C.; Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Wolff, Stefan; Araüjo, Alessandro Carioca de; Lavric, J. V.; Kesselmeier, Jürgen; Williams, Jonathan C.The hydroxyl radical (OH) removes most atmospheric pollutants from air. The loss frequency of OH radicals due to the combined effect of all gas-phase OH reactive species is a measureable quantity termed total OH reactivity. Here we present total OH reactivity observations in pristine Amazon rainforest air, as a function of season, time-of-day and height (0-80 m). Total OH reactivity is low during wet (10s-1) an...
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...
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...
Observations of Manaus urban plume evolution and interaction with biogenic emis...
Cirino, Glauber G.; Brito, Joel F.; Barbosa, H. M. J.; Rizzo, Luciana Varanda; Tunved, Peter; Sá, Suzane S. de; Ji?enez, José Luis; Palm, Brett B.As part of the Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon 2014/5) Experiment, detailed aerosol and trace gas measurements were conducted near Manaus, a metropolis located in the central Amazon Basin. Measurements of aerosol particles and trace gases were done downwind Manaus at the sites T2 (Tiwa Hotel) and T3 (Manacapuru), at a distance of 8 and 70 km from Manaus, respectively. Based on in-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...
Opposite OH reactivity and ozone cycles in the Amazon rainforest and megacity B...
Williams, Jonathan C.; Keßel, Stephan U.; Nölscher, Anke C.; Yang, Yudong; Lee, Yue; Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Wolff, Stefan; Kesselmeier, JürgenThe Amazon rainforest in Brazil and the megacity of Beijing in China are two of the most strongly contrasting habitats on Earth. In both locations, volatile chemicals are emitted into the atmosphere affecting the local atmospheric chemistry, air quality and ecosystem health. In this study, the total reactivity in air available for reaction with the atmosphere's primary oxidant the OH radical, has been measured ...
Monoterpene chemical speciation in a tropical rainforest:variation with season,...
Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Nölscher, Anke C.; Bourtsoukidis, Efstratios; Alves, Eliane Gomes; Ganzeveld, Laurens N.; Bonn, Boris; Wolff, StefanSpeciated monoterpene measurements in rainforest air are scarce, but they are essential for understanding the contribution of these compounds to the overall reactivity of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions towards the main atmospheric oxidants, such as hydroxyl radicals (OH), ozone (O3) and nitrate radicals (NO3). In this study, we present the chemical speciation of gas-phase monoterpenes measured in the...
Diel and seasonal changes of biogenic volatile organic compounds within and abo...
Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Nölscher, Anke C.; Williams, Jonathan C.; Wolff, Stefan; Alves, Eliane Gomes; Martins, Giordane AugustoThe Amazonian rainforest is a large tropical ecosystem, which is one of the last pristine continental terrains. This ecosystem is ideally located for the study of diel and seasonal behaviour of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) in the absence of local human interference. In this study, we report the first atmospheric BVOC measurements at the Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) site, located in cen...
Long-term observations of cloud condensation nuclei in the Amazon rain forest -...
Pöhlker, Mira L.; Pöhlker, Christopher; Ditas, Florian; Klimach, Thomas; Angelis, Isabella Hrabe de; Araüjo, Alessandro Carioca de; Brito, Joel F.Size-resolved long-term measurements of atmospheric aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations and hygroscopicity were conducted at the remote Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) in the central Amazon Basin over a 1-year period and full seasonal cycle (March 2014-February 2015). The measurements provide a climatology of CCN properties characteristic of a remote central Amazonian rain forest sit...