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A diagnostic deposition model based on generally accepted micrometeorological ideas on the transfer of momentum, sensible heat and matter near the Earth's surface is presented. The parameterization of fluxes is based on the flux-gradient relationships in the turbulent region of the surface layer and the sublayer Stanton number as well as the Reynolds analogy between concentration, temperature and wind velocity distributions in the underlying sublayer. The model requires only vertical profile data of wind velocity, dry- and wet-bulb temperatures and trace gas concentrations from the turbulent part of the surface layer.
The method has been applied to vertical profile data collected in field experiments such as the GREIV I 1974 project and the Great Plains Turbulence Project. In order to illustrate the way in which the model can be used to evaluate deposition fluxes and velocities of reactive trace gases, it has been applied to observed concentrations of NO, NO2 and ozone.
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Kramm, G. A numerical method for determining the dry deposition of atmospheric trace gases. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 48, 157–175 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121788
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