Meteorological and Remote-Sensing Mission Support for TOPSE (Tropospheric Ozone Production About the Spring Equinox)

该项目涉及开发气象和遥感产品，支持关于春分(TOPSE)实验的对流层臭氧生产。TOPSE是一个由多个调查员组成的以飞机为基础的计划，旨在研究北美和北极高纬度地区对流层春季臭氧的最大值。确定RNID-对流层中动态调制的背景臭氧浓度的变化将是TOPSE实验成功的一个重要组成部分。臭氧在哪里平流以及如何平流也将被追踪。卫星遥感工作与详细的气象分析相结合，包括飞行期间大气的三维可视化、制作详细的横截面和计算三维后向轨迹，构成了拟议工作的基础。将开展这项支助工作，以最大限度地提高解释飞机、臭氧探空仪和基于地面的化学观测的能力，这些都是TOPSE的重点。将制作实时气象产品，并以标准图像格式和带有解释性文本的动画循环形式在网页上提供。将在实地活动期间编制图像和气象模型场档案，并将与TOPSE化学家和模型师协作进行后期密集分析，以便在适当的气象背景下解释所有化学观测结果。

This project involves the development of meteorological and remote sensing products in support of the Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring Equinox (TOPSE) experiment. TOPSE is a multi-investigator, aircraft-based program designed to study the tropospheric spring ozone maximum over high latitude North America and the Arctic. Characterizing changes in the dynamically modulated background ozone concentration in the rnid-troposphere will be an important component in the success of the TOPSE experiment. Where and how this ozone is advected will also be traced. Satellite remote-sensing work, in combination with detailed meteorological analyses, including 3-dimensional visualizations of the atmosphere during flights, the production of detailed cross sections, and calculations of 3-dimensional back trajectories, form the basis of the proposed effort. This support work will be carried out to maximize the ability to interpret aircraft, ozonesonde, and surface-based chemical observations, which are the focus of TOPSE. Real-time meteorological products will be produced and made available on web pages in standard image formats and as animated loops with interpretive text. Archives of imagery and meteorological model fields will be developed for the duration of the field campaign and post-intensive analyses will be undertaken in collaboration with TOPSE chemists and modelers to interpret all chemical observations in the appropriate meteorological context.