Studies of the Mechanisms and Rates with Which Nitrogen Species Are Incorporated into Cloud Water and Precipitation. (Final Report)

摘要

There were 3 main scientific objectives for the third-year work: to examine the relationship between nitrate production and nitrate precursor reactants; to establish a data base on PAN, including vertical profiles in the atmosphere, which could be used to assess the transport and scavenging of PAN by precipitating systems; and to use a rainband chemistry model to quantify the fluxes of odd-nitrogen species thru precipitating systems. During the third-year study, additional data sets to pursue these objectives were obtained by 'piggy-backing' measurements of nitrogen species on the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment (GALE) field study.