Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 7 3 2007 10.5194/acpd-7-6527-2007 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/6527/2007/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/6527/2007/acpd-7-6527-2007.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/6527/2007/acpd-7-6527-2007.pdf 6527 6555 2007-05-15 Ground-based measurements of tropospheric and stratospheric bromine monoxide above Nairobi (1° S, 36° E) S. Fietkau fietkau@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de T. Medeke A. Richter N. Sheode B.-M. Sinnhuber F. Wittrock N. Theys M. van Roozendael J. P. Burrows Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium now at: Departement of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Ground based observations of stratospheric and tropospheric bromine monoxide, BrO, from a multi axial differential optical absorption spectrometer, MAXDOAS, located at the UNEP/UNON site in Nairobi (1° S, 36° E) are presented for the year 2003. Differences in BrO slant column densities at 90° and 80° solar zenith angle retrieved from the zenith-sky measurements are used to study stratospheric BrO. They show only small variations with season, as expected for the small seasonality in stratospheric Bry and NO2 in this region. A pronounced diurnal variation can be observed, the average value for the morning being 1.3×1014 molecules/cm2 and for the evening 1.5×1014 molecules/cm2. 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