Absorption of solar radiation by O2 - Implications for O3 and lifetimes of N2O, CFCl3, and CF2Cl2

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Jun 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9810543m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. D6, p. 10,543-10,561.

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86

Chlorofluorocarbons, Molecular Absorption, Nitrous Oxides, Oxygen, Solar Radiation, Ultraviolet Radiation, Absorption Cross Sections, Photolysis, Schumann-Runge Bands

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An accurate line-by-line model is used to evaluate effects of absorption in the Schumann-Runge bands of O2 on transmission of UV radiation. The model is used to evaluate rates of photolysis for N2O, CFCl3, and CF2Cl2, and to infer global loss rates and instantaneous lifetimes appropriate for 1980. A parameterized version of the line-by-line model enabling rapid evaluation of transmission in the Schumann-Runge region is described. Photochemical calculations employing the parameterization and constrained by data from the Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy experiment are used to examine the budget of odd oxygen. Consistent with previous studies, it is shown that photochemical loss of odd oxygen exceeds production by photolysis of O2 for altitudes above 40 km. The imbalance between production and loss is shown to be consistent with a source of odd oxygen proportional to the product of the mixing ratio and photolysis rate of ozone, which suggests that processes involving vibrationally excited O2 may play an important role in production of odd oxygen.

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