TACKLING ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY GRAND CHALLENGES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Grant number: DP160101598 | Funding period: 2016 - 2021

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The project aims to provide a southern hemisphere perspective on current challenges in atmospheric chemistry: air quality, oxidation capacity, stratospheric change, and chemistry–climate interactions. Australia’s geographic position in the relatively clean southern hemisphere allows a unique opportunity to study environments with limited human influence, an opportunity that has largely been lost in the more populous northern hemisphere. The intended outcomes of the project include validated ground-based and satellite datasets for monitoring Australia’s air quality, improved atmospheric models for predicting future atmospheric change, and a deeper understanding of the processes driving atmosp..

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<jats:p>This paper presents a summary of the key findings of the special issue of Atmosphere on Air Quality in New South Wales and..

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Characterization of aerosols over the Great Barrier Reef: The influence of transported continental sources

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Stratospheric ozone intrusion events and their impacts on tropospheric ozone in the Southern Hemisphere

Jesse W Greenslade, Simon P Alexander, Robyn Schofield, Jenny A Fisher, Andrew K Klekociuk

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