Global modelling of tropospheric iodine aerosol

Sherwen, Tomás M., Evans, Mat J., Spracklen, Dominick V., Carpenter, Lucy J., Chance, Rosie, Baker, Alex R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-8953, Schmidt, Johan A. and Breider, Thomas J. (2016) Global modelling of tropospheric iodine aerosol. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (18). 10012–10019. ISSN 0094-8276

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Abstract

Natural aerosols play a central role in the Earth system. The conversion of dimethyl sulfide to sulfuric acid is the dominant source of oceanic secondary aerosol. Ocean emitted iodine can also produce aerosol. Using a GEOS-Chem model we present a simulation of iodine aerosol. The simulation compares well with the limited observational dataset. Iodine aerosol concentrations are highest in the tropical marine-boundary layer (MBL) averaging 5.2 ng (I) m-3 with monthly maximum concentrations of 90 ng (I) m-3. These masses are small compared to sulfate (0.75% of MBL burden, up to 11% regionally) but are more significant compared to DMS sourced sulfate (3% of the MBL burden, up to 101% regionally). In the pre-industrial, iodine aerosol makes up 0.88 % of the MBL burden sulfate mass and regionally up to 21%. Iodine aerosol may be an important regional mechanism for ocean-atmosphere interaction.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: iodine,aerosol,dimethyl sulfide,marine boundary layer,dms,sulfate
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Date Deposited: 24 Sep 2016 00:42
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 14:34
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60194
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070062

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