On the net transfer or carbon dioxide from liquid precipitation to the atmosphere

Details On the net transfer or carbon dioxide from liquid precipitation to the atmosphere On the net transfer or carbon dioxide from liquid precipitation to the atmosphere

Mar 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988georl..15..273s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 15, March 1988, p. 273-276.

Physics

Acid Rain, Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry, Calcium Carbonates, Carbon Dioxide, Precipitation (Meteorology), Ammonia, Chemical Reactions, Deserts, Northern Hemisphere, Sulfates

Scientific paper

Most of the water-soluble carbonate and nonmarine calcium (Ca-asterisk) in background aerosol in the Northern Hemisphere could originate as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) of arid soil origin. This is most relevant to the tropics, and a good portion of the temperature latitude belt. However, at equilibrium pH-values between about 6 and 7, the dissolved carbonate is primarily present as the bicarbonate HCO3(-). Selecting a random set of precipitation samples in the same pH-range, the HCO3(-)/Ca-asterisk stoichiometric ratio values were evaluated for a number of background locations in the Northern Hemisphere. The representative range observed is about 0.04-0.5. Assuming that acid-base neutralization reactions are ubiquitous, the above range of ratio values suggests that aqueous precipitation at the surface - or possibly some raindrops aloft - in background locations affected by arid aerosol could act as a net source of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, and not vice versa, as has been universally assumed or implied in the past.

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