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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | ©2016. The Authors. This is an open access article under theterms of the Creative CommonsAttribution License, which permits use,distribution and reproduc tion in anymedium, provided the original work isproperly cited. |
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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Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
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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