Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30l..58b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 12, pp. 58-1, CiteID 1656, DOI 10.1029/2003GL016932
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Chemical Kinetic And Photochemical Properties, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Constituent Sources And Sinks
Scientific paper
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.
Blake Geoffrey A.
Liang Mao-Chang
Morgan Christopher G.
Yung Yuk L.
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