Oxygen isotope fractionation in stratospheric CO2

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Apr 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991georl..18..669t&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 18, April 1991, p. 669-672. NASA-supported research.

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Carbon Dioxide, Cryogenic Temperature, Fractionation, Oxygen Isotopes, Stratosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Mass Spectrometers, Vapor Phases

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A new cryogenic collection system has been flown on board a balloon gondola to obtain separate samples of ozone and carbon dioxide without entrapping major atmospheric gases. Precision laboratory isotopic analysis of CO2 samples collected between 26 and 35.5 km show a mass-independent enrichment in both O-17 and O-18 of about 11 per mil above tropospheric values. Ozone enrichment in its heavy isotopes was 9 to 16 percent in O3-50 and 8 to 11 percent in O3-49, respectively (Schueler et al., 1990). A mechanism to explain the isotope enrichment in CO2 has been recently proposed by Yung et al. (1991). The model is based on the isotope exchange between CO2 and O3 via O(1D), resulting in a transfer of the ozone isotope enrichment to carbon dioxide. Predicted enrichment and measured values agree well.

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