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Fast Breaking Comments

By David Parrish

ESI Special Topics, August 2007
Citing URL - http://www.esi-topics.com/fbp/2007/august07-DavidParrish.html

David Parrish answers a few questions about this month's fast breaking paper in the field of Geosciences.

From •>>August 2007
Field: Geosciences
 Article Title: International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT): North America to Europe - Overview of the 2004 summer field study
Authors: Fehsenfeld, FC;Ancellet, G;Bates, TS;Goldstein, AH;Hardesty, RM;Honrath, R;Law, KS;Lewis, AC;Leaitch, R;McKeen, S;Meagher, J;Parrish, DD;Pszenny, AAP;Russell, PB;Schlager, H;Seinfeld, J;Talbot, R;Zbinden, R
Journal: J GEOPHYS RES-ATMOS
Volume: 111
Issue: D23
Page: art.
Year: no.-D23S01 DEC 14 2006
* NOAA, Earth Syst Res Lab, Boulder, CO 80305 USA.
* NOAA, Earth Syst Res Lab, Boulder, CO 80305 USA.
* Univ Paris 06, Serv Aeron, CNRS, Inst Pierre Simon Laplace, F-75252 Paris, France.
* NOAA, Pacific Marine Environm Lab, Seattle, WA 98115 USA.
* Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
* Michigan Technol Univ, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Houghton, MI 49931 USA.
* Environm Canada, Sci & Technol Branch, Toronto, ON M3H 5T4, Canada.
* Univ York, Dept Chem, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England.
* Univ New Hampshire, Inst Study Earth Oceans & Space, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
* NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA.
* Deutsch Zentrum Luft & Raumfahrt, D-82230 Wessling, Germany.
* CALTECH, Dept Environm Sci & Engn, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
* CALTECH, Dept Chem Engn, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
* Univ Toulouse 3, Lab Aerol, UMR 5560 CNRS, Observ Midi Pyrenees, F-31400 Toulouse, France.

ST:  Why do you think your paper is highly cited?


Dr. Parrish's work has led him to coordinate two highly successful IGAC Tasks on Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation: ITCT-2K2 and ITCT-Lagrangian-2K4.

It is an overview of a large study, and is simply a convenient reference.

ST:  Would you summarize the significance of your paper in layman’s terms?

In the summer of 2004, several separate field programs intensively studied the photochemical, heterogeneous chemical, and radiative environment of the troposphere over North America, the North Atlantic Ocean, and western Europe. Previous studies have indicated that the transport of continental emissions, particularly from North America, influences the concentrations of trace species in the troposphere over the North Atlantic and Europe.

An international team of scientists, representing over 100 laboratories, collaborated under the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) umbrella to coordinate the separate field programs in order to maximize the resulting advances in our understanding of regional air quality, the transport, chemical transformation and removal of aerosols, ozone, and their precursors during intercontinental transport, and the radiation balance of the troposphere.End

David Parrish
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Chemical Sciences Division
Boulder, CO, USA

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