Global stratospheric effects of the alumina emissions by solid-fueled rocket motors

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Danilin, MY
Shia, RL
Ko, MKW
Weisenstein, DK
Sze, ND
Lamb, JJ
Smith, TW
Lohn, PD
Prather, MJ
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[1] AER Inc, Lexington, MA 02421 USA
[2] TRW Co Inc, Space & Technol Div, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 USA
[3] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES | 2001年 / 106卷 / D12期
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10.1029/2001JD900022
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P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
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0706 ; 070601 ;
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We simulate accumulation of Al2O3 particles in the atmosphere produced by solid-fueled rocket motors by using the Goddard Institute for Space Studies/University of California at Irvine three-dimensional (3-D) chemistry-transport model (CTM). Our study differs from Jackman et al. (1998) by applying a 3-D CTM, considering 13 size bins for the emitted particles from 0.025 to 10 mum and taking into account their washout, gravitational sedimentation, and coagulation with background sulfate aerosol. We assume an initial trimodal size distribution of Al2O3 particles (Beiting, 1997) with 2.8% by mass of the alumina emitted as particles with radius of less than 1 mum. Our test case adopts a stratospheric source of 1120 tons/yr equivalent to nine space Shuttle and four Titan IV launches annually. The calculated steady state surface area density (SAD) and mass density for the scenarios with sedimentation of alumina particles have maximum values in the lower stratosphere in the Northern Hemisphere of up to 7x10(-4) mum(2)/cm(3) and 0.09 ng/m(3), respectively, or about 1000 times smaller than those of the background sulfate aerosol. Our results are sensitive to the emitted mass fractionation of alumina (EMFA) showing the values for the SAD or mass density higher or lower by an order of magnitude owing to a poorly known EMFA. Chemical implications of alumina particle accumulation for the ozone balance are estimated by using the Atmospheric and Environmental Research 2-D model assuming chlorine activation on Al2O3 surfaces via the ClONO2 + HCl --> Cl-2 + HNO3 reaction with a probability of 0.02 (Molina et al., 1997). Owing to the very small Al2O3 SAD, any additional ozone depletion due to Al2O3 emissions is also small (0.0028% on a global annually averaged basis for the scenario with sedimentation, or about 4 times smaller than the ozone response to chlorine emissions only). The ozone depletion potential of the alumina emissions is about 0.03-0.08 for the scenarios using the EMFA of Beiting (1997) and larger by an order of magnitude for the EMFA of Brady and Martin (1995).
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