Vertical Distributions of Ozone above the San Joaquin Valley Measured by the NOAA TOPAZ lidar during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study

The California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS) was conducted in the late spring and summer of 2016 to investigate the influence of trans-boundary ozone (O3) on the surface concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) of California, one of two "extreme" non-attainment areas remaining in the United States. As part of this study, the truck-based NOAA ESRL scanning ozone and aerosol lidar (TOPAZ) was deployed to the Visalia, CA Airport for two 3-week intensive operating periods: (May 29 - June 18) and (July 18-August 7). This site was selected to take advantage of the collocated radar wind profiler and RASS operated by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the lidar measurements also overlapped with in situ sampling by the NASA Ames Alpha Jet (AJAX) and the UC Davis/Scientific Aviation Mooney aircraft. In addition, the lidar measurements coincided with daily ozonesonde launches at Bodega Bay and Half Moon Bay by San Jose State University. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the TOPAZ measurements, and discuss the impacts of stratosphere-to-troposphere transport (STT), long-range transport from Asia, and regional transport from the Los Angeles Basin on the measurements.