Formaldehyde in the Tropical Western Pacific: Evaluation of model chemistry and emissions with in situ observations

Daniel C Anderson1, Julie M Nicely1, Ross J Salawitch2, Glenn M Wolfe3, Thomas F Hanisco4, Russell R Dickerson1, Eric C Apel5, Elliot L Atlas6, Sunil Baidar7, Nicola J Blake8, Teresa Lynn Campos9, Dexian Chen10, Barbara Dix11, Rafael Fernandez12, L Gregory Huey13, Douglas Edward Kinnison14, Theodore Konstantinos Koenig15, Samuel R Hall16, Rebecca S Hornbrook9, J F Lamarque17, Laura Pan18, Daniel D Riemer19, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez20, David Tanner21, Kirk Ullmann16, Rainer M Volkamer22, Andrew John Weinheimer23, Michael Robert Le Breton24, Carl Percival25 and Thomas Bannan24, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, AOSC and Chemistry, College Park, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Miami, Miami, United States, (7)CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder/NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (9)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (13)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (14)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (15)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, (20)Spanish National Research Council, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, (21)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, (22)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Chemistry, Boulder, United States, (23)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (24)University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom, (25)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom