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Weinheimer Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA University of Washington, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98021, USA Atmospheric Sciences Division, Langley Research Center, NASA, Hampton, VA 23681, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, 503 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802-5013 USA Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA University of New Hampshire, Climate Change Research Center, 39 College Road, Durham, NH 03824, USA Earth Observing Lab., National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4520, USA School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340, USA Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA NASA Ames Research Center, MS-245-5, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA National Center for Atmospheric Res., 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305, USA now at: KNMI, PO Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands We use an ensemble of aircraft, satellite, sonde, and surface observations for April–May 2006 (NASA/INTEX-B aircraft campaign) to better understand the mechanisms for transpacific ozone pollution and its implications for North American air quality. The observations are interpreted with a global 3-D chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem). OMI NO₂ satellite observations constrain Asian anthropogenic NO_x emissions and indicate a factor of 2 increase from 2000 to 2006 in China. Satellite observations of CO from AIRS and TES indicate two major events of Asian transpacific pollution during INTEX-B. Correlation between TES CO and ozone observations shows evidence for transpacific ozone pollution. The semi-permanent Pacific High and Aleutian Low cause splitting of transpacific pollution plumes over the Northeast Pacific. The northern branch circulates around the Aleutian Low and has little impact on North America. The southern branch circulates around the Pacific High and impacts western North America. 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