A Born-Oppenheimer photolysis model of N2O fractionation

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Chemical Kinetic And Photochemical Properties, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Constituent Sources And Sinks

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The isotopically light N2O produced by microbial activity is thought to be balanced by the return of heavy stratospheric nitrous oxide. The Yung and Miller [1997] method that first explained these trends yields photolytic fractionation factors ~half those observed by experiment or predicted quantum mechanically, however. To address these issues, we present here a Born-Oppenheimer photolysis model that uses only commonly available spectroscopic data. The predicted fractionations quantitatively reproduce laboratory data, and have been incorporated into zonally averaged atmospheric simulations. Like McLinden et al. [2003], who employ a three-dimensional chemical transport model with cross sections scaled to match laboratory data, we find excellent agreement between predictions and stratospheric measurements; additional processes that contribute to the mass independent anomaly in N2O can only account for a fraction of its global budget.

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