Data · dataset · 2026
Lightning NO x in the 29â30 May 2012 Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) severe storm and its downwind chemical consequences
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A cloud-resolved storm and chemistry simulation of a severe convective system in Oklahoma constrained by anvil aircraft observations of NOx was used to estimate the mean production of NOx per flash in this storm.
Description
An upward ice flux scheme was used to parameterize flash rates in the model. Model lightning was also constrained by observed lightning flash types and the altitude distribution of flash channel segments.
The best estimate of mean NOx production by lightning in this storm was 80-110 mol per flash, which is smaller than many other literature estimates. This result is likely due to the storm having been a high flash rate event in which flash extents were relatively small. Over the evolution of this storm a moderate negative correlation was found between the total flash rate and flash extent and energy per flash.
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A longer-term simulation at 36-km horizontal resolution with parameterized convection was used to simulate the downwind transport and chemistry of the anvil outflow from the same storm. Convective transport of low-ozone air from the boundary layer decreased ozone in the anvil outflow by up to 20-40 ppbv compared with the initial conditions, which contained stratospheric influence. Photochemical ozone production in the lightning-NOx enhanced convective plume proceeded at a rate of 10-11 ppbv per day in the 9-11 km outflow layer over the 24-hr period of downwind transport to the Southern Appalachians.
Photochemical production plays a large role in the restoration of upper tropospheric ozone following deep convection.
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
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- Atmospheric sciences 71% · Simulation 75%
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