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The Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment (ABLE 2A) - Dry season 1985The Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment (ABLE 2A) used data from aircraft, ground-based, and satellite platforms to characterize the chemistry and dynamics of the lower atmosphere over the Amazon Basin during the early-to-middle dry season, July and August 1985. This paper reports the conceptual framework and experimental approach used in ABLE 2A and serves as an introduction to the detailed papers which follow in this issue. The results of ABLE 2A demonstrate that isoprene, methane, carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, dimethylsulfide, and organic aerosol emissions from soils and vegetation play a major role in determining the chemical composition of the atmospheric mixed layer over undisturbed forest and wetland environments. As the dry season progresses, emissions from both local and distant biomass burning become an important source of carbon monoxide, nitric oxide and ozone in the atmosphere over the central Amazon Basin.
Document ID
19880040024
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Harriss, R. C.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Browell, E. V.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Hoell, J. M., Jr.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Bendura, R. J.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Beck, S. M.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Wofsy, S. C.
(Harvard University Cambridge, MA, United States)
Mcneal, R. J.
(NASA Earth Science and Applications Div. Washington, DC, United States)
Navarro, R. L.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Riley, J. T.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Snell, R. L.
(NASA Wallops Flight Center Wallops Island VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
February 20, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 93
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Accession Number
88A27251
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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