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Wiley Open Access, Atmospheric Science Letters, 1(12), p. 13-18, 2010

DOI: 10.1002/asl.289

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Atmospheric composition of West Africa: highlights from the AMMA international program

Journal article published in 2010 by Céline H. Mari, Claire E. Reeves, Kathy S. Law ORCID, Gérard Ancellet, Maria Dolores Andrés-Hernández, Maria Dolores Dolores Andrés-Hernández, Brice Barret, Joëlle Bechara, Agnès Borbon, Idir Bouarar, Francesco Cairo ORCID, Roisin Commane ORCID, Claire Delon, Matthew J. Evans ORCID, Federico Fierli and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The atmospheric composition of West Africa reflects the interaction of various dynamical and chemical systems (i.e. biogenic, urban, convective and long-range transport) with signatures from local to continental scales. Recent measurements performed during the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) observational periods in 2005 and 2006 provide new data which has allowed new insight into the processes within these systems that control the distribution of ozone and its precursors. Using these new data and recently published results, we provide an overview of these systems with a particular emphasis on ozone distributions over West Africa during the wet season.