Is there any chlorine monoxide in the stratosphere?

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Jul 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983sci...221..268m&link_type=abstract

Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 221, July 15, 1983, p. 268-271.

Physics

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Chlorine Oxides, Fluorocarbons, Stratosphere, Ammonia, Chlorofluorocarbons, Ozone, Spectrometers, Troposphere

Scientific paper

A ground-based search for stratospheric 35-ClO was carried out using an infrared heterodyne spectrometer in the solar absorption mode. Lines due to stratospheric HNO3 and tropospheric OCS were detected at about 0.2 percent absorptance levels, but the expected 0.1 percent lines of ClO in this same region were not seen. We find that stratospheric ClO is at least a factor of seven less abundant than is indicated by in situ measurements, and we set an upper limit of 2.3 x 10 to the 13th molecules/sq cm at the 95 percent confidence level for the integrated vertical column density of ClO. Our results imply that the release of chlorofluorocarbons may be significantly less important for the destruction of stratospheric ozone (O3) than is currently thought. Previously announced in STAR as N83-27518

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