Substantial contribution of iodine to Arctic ozone destruction

Autor(en)
Nuria Benavent, Anoop S. Mahajan, Qinyi Li, Carlos A. Cuevas, Julia Schmale, Hélène Angot, Tuija Jokinen, Lauriane L. J. Quelever, Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt, Bianca Zilker, Andreas Richter, Jesús A. Serna, David Garcia-Nieto, Rafael P. Fernandez, Henrik Skov, Adela Dumitrascu, Patric Simões Pereira, Katarina Abrahamsson, Silvia Bucci, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Stohl, Ivo Beck, Tiia Laurila, Byron Blomquist, Dean Howard, Stephen D. Archer, Ludovic Bariteau, Detlev Helmig, Jacques Hueber, Hans-Werner Jacobi, Kevin Posman, Lubna Dada, Kaspar R. Daellenbach, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
Abstrakt

Unlike bromine, the effect of iodine chemistry on the Arctic surface ozone budget is poorly constrained. We present ship-based measurements of halogen oxides in the high Arctic boundary layer from the sunlit period of March to October 2020 and show that iodine enhances springtime tropospheric ozone depletion. We find that chemical reactions between iodine and ozone are the second highest contributor to ozone loss over the study period, after ozone photolysis-initiated loss and ahead of bromine.

Iodine chemistry plays a more important role than bromine chemistry in tropospheric ozone losses in the Arctic, according to ship-based observations of halogen oxides from March to October 2020.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Ministry of Earth Sciences, India, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Universität Bremen, CONICET and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo), Aarhus University, University of Gothenburg, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Helsinki, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Boulder A.I.R, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Paul Scherrer Institute
Journal
Nature Geoscience
Band
15
Seiten
770-773
Anzahl der Seiten
4
ISSN
1752-0894
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01018-w
Publikationsdatum
09-2022
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105206 Meteorologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Erdkunde und Planetologie
Link zum Portal
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