An evaluation of autocatalytic ozone production from vibrationally excited oxygen in the middle atmosphere
Abstract
The possibility of significant autocatalytic ozone production in the middle atmosphere was demonstrated, and a detailed framework including five processes previously not considered is presented here. When these processes are included, particularly wavelength-dependent vibrational distributions of O2, calculated ozone enhancements are less than 10 percent in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere. The vibrational distributions and the rate of vibrational quenching are identified as key issues which need to be addressed by experiments.
- Publication:
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Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry
- Pub Date:
- July 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00053610
- Bibcode:
- 1992JAtC...15...69T
- Keywords:
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- Autocatalysis;
- Middle Atmosphere;
- Oxygen Spectra;
- Ozonometry;
- Vibrational Spectra;
- Atmospheric Chemistry;
- Mesosphere;
- Photolysis;
- Quenching (Atomic Physics);
- Stratosphere