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Distribution of hydrogen peroxide and methylhydroperoxide over the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans
被引:56
作者:
O'Sullivan, DW
[1
]
Heikes, BG
Lee, M
Chang, W
Gregory, GL
Blake, DR
Sachse, GW
机构:
[1] USN Acad, Dept Chem, Annapolis, MD 21401 USA
[2] Univ Rhode Isl, Grad Sch Oceanog, Ctr Atmospher Chem Studies, Narragansett, RI 02882 USA
[3] NASA, Langley Res Ctr, Div Atmospher Sci, Hampton, VA 23665 USA
[4] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Chem, Irvine, CA 92717 USA
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10.1029/98JD01250
中图分类号:
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号:
0706 ;
070601 ;
摘要:
The gas phase hydrogen peroxide and methylhydroperoxide concentrations were measured in the troposphere over the tropical Pacific Ocean as a component of NASA's Global Tropospheric Experiment/Pacific Exploratory Mission-Tropics A field campaign. Flights on two aircraft covered the Pacific from 70 degrees S to 60 degrees N and 110 degrees E to 80 degrees W and South Atlantic from 40 degrees S to 15 degrees N and 45 degrees W to 70 degrees E, and extending from 76 to 13,000 m altitude. H2O2 and CH3OOH have the highest concentrations at a given altitude at the equator and decrease with increasing latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Above 4 km the gradient is substantially reduced for both H2O2 and CH3OOH with latitude, and at altitudes in excess of 8 km there is no latitudinal dependence. H2O2 and CH3OOH exhibit maximum mixing ratios between 1 and 2 km at all latitudes. The mean mixing ratio of H2O2 at the equator was 1600 +/- 600 parts per trillion by volume (pptv) decreasing to 500 +/- 250 pptv at latitudes greater than 550 north and south between 1 and 2 km altitude. CH3OOH at the equator was 1400 +/- 250 pptv, decreasing to 330 +/- 200 pptv at high latitudes at altitudes between 1 and 2 km. The concentration of peroxides at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere was generally a factor of 2 higher than at corresponding latitudes in the southern hemisphere. The ratio of H2O2 to CH3OOH was between 1 and 2 from 45 degrees S to 35 degrees N at altitudes below 4 km. Between 5 degrees to 15 degrees N the ratio is less than 1, due to preferential removal of H2O2 in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
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