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Friedl, R. R.

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Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies Evaluation Number 16. Supplement to Evaluation 15: Update of Key Reactions

This is the supplement to the fifteenth in a series of evaluated sets of rate constants and photochemical cross sections compiled by the NASA Panel for Data Evaluation. The data are used primarily to model stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes, with particular emphasis on the ozone layer and its possible perturbation by anthropogenic and natural phenomena. Copies of this evaluation are available in electronic form and may be printed from the following Internet URL: http://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov/.

atmospheric modeling↗

Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies Evaluation Number 15

This is the fifteenth in a series of evaluated sets of rate constants and photochemical cross sections compiled by the NASA Panel for Data Evaluation. The data are used primarily to model stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes, with particular emphasis on the ozone layer and its possible perturbation by anthropogenic and natural phenomena. Copies of this evaluation are available in electronic form and may be printed from the following Internet URL: http://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov/.

data evaluation↗

Activities of NASA's Global Modeling Initiative (GMI) in the Assessment of Subsonic Aircraft Impact

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated a peak increase in ozone ranging from 7-12 ppbv (zonal and annual average, and relative to a baseline with no aircraft), due to the subsonic aircraft in the year 2015, corresponding to aircraft emissions of 1.3 TgN/year. This range of values presumably reflects differences in model input (e.g., chemical mechanism, ground emission fluxes, and meteorological fields), and algorithms. The model implemented by the Global Modeling Initiative allows testing the impact of individual model components on the assessment calculations. We present results of the impact of doubling the 1995 aircraft emissions of NOx, corresponding to an extra 0.56 TgN/year, utilizing meteorological data from NASA's Data Assimilation Office (DAO), the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), and the Middle Atmosphere Community Climate Model, version 3 (MACCM3). Comparison of results to observations can be used to assess the model performance. Peak ozone perturbations ranging from 1.7 to 2.2 ppbv of ozone are calculated using the different fields. These correspond to increases in total tropospheric ozone ranging from 3.3 to 4.1 Tg/Os. These perturbations are consistent with the IPCC results, due to the difference in aircraft emissions. However, the range of values calculated is much smaller than in IPCC.

Rodriquez, J. M.↗

Kinetics Studies of the HO (sub 2) + CIO Reaction

The HO (sub 2) + CIO reaction is the key rate-limiting step in the chlorine-catalyzed destruction of ozone in the lower and middle stratosphere. Product channels leading to HOC1 and HC1 are both exothermic and a small HC1 channel will significantly alter the partitioning of inorganic chlorine in the lower stratosphere.

Kinetics ozone inorganic chlorine temperature↗

Present State of Knowledge of the Upper Atmosphere 1996: An Assessment Report to Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency

This document is issued in response to the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990, Public Law 101-549, which mandates that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other key agencies submit triennial report to congress and the Environmental Protection Agency. NASA is charged with the responsibility to report on the state of our knowledge of the Earth's upper atmosphere, particularly the Stratosphere. Part 1 of this report summarizes the objectives, status, and accomplishments of the research tasks supported under NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Program and Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program for the period of 1994-1996. Part 2 (this document) presents summaries of several scientific assessments, reviews, and summaries. These include the executive summaries of two scientific assessments: (Section B) 'Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994'; (Section C) 'l995 Scientific Assessment of the Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft); end of mission/series statements for three stratospherically-focused measurement campaigns: (Section D) 'ATLAS End-of-Series Statement'; (Section E) 'ASHOE/MAESA End-of-Mission Statement'; (Section F) 'TOTE/VOTE End-of-Mission Statement'; a summary of NASA's latest biennial review of fundamental photochemical processes important to atmospheric chemistry 'Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Stratospheric Modeling'; and (Section H) the section 'Atmospheric Ozone Research" from the Mission to Planet Earth Science Research Plan, which describes NASA's current and future research activities related to both tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry.

Kurylo, M. J.↗

Kinetics of the HO2 + BrO Reaction Over the Temperature Range 233-348 K

The reaction BrO + HO2 products is the rate-limiting step in a key catalytic ozone destruction cycle in the lower stratosphere. In this study a discharge flow reactor coupled with molecular beam mass spectrometry has been used to study the BrO + HO2 reaction over the temperature range 233-348 K.

flow velocity↗

The Nu-Sub-One Band of HOBr

b-One Band of HOBr centered at 3614.903 cm-1 has been observed at 0.006 cm-1 resolution. (abstract only).

bromine Herman-Wallis↗

Kinetics of FO2 with NO, NO2, O3, CH4, and C2H6

The presence of fluorine containing compounds (e.g. HF and COF2) in the Earth's atmosphere is thought to be due solely to the decomposition of man-made chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons. The effect on atmosphere ozone of reactive fluorine-containing intermediates produced during CFC and HFC decomposition has attracted significant interest recently.

fluorine compounds atmospheric gasses ozone mass s↗

JPL Fourier transform ultraviolet spectrometer

The Fourier Transform Ultraviolet Spectrometer (FTUVS) is a new high resolution interferometric spectrometer for multiple-species detection in the UV, visible and near-IR. As an OH sensor, measurements can be carried out by remote sensing (limb emission and column absorption), or in-situ sensing (long-path absorption or laser-induced fluorescence). As a high resolution detector in a high repetition rate (greater than 10 kHz) LIF system, OH fluorescence can be discriminated against non-resonant background emission and laser scatter, permitting (0, 0) excitation.

Cageao, R. P.↗

Measurement of the V-T Energy Transfer Rates of Highly Excited (sup 2)A(sub 1) NO(sub 2)

Production of electronic ground state NO(sub 2) from 248 nm photolysis of HNO(sub 3) was detected by laser induced fluorescence (LIF). A growth in the LIF signal was observed following the photolysis and has been interpreted as the relaxation of NO(sub 2) through the higher vibrational levels of the X state; an energy region where the probe laser photodissociates the NO(sub 2) instead of inducing fluorescence.

laser induced fluorescence (LIF)↗