Substantial contribution of iodine to Arctic ozone destruction
- Author(s)
- Nuria Benavent, Anoop S. Mahajan, Qinyi Li, Carlos A. Cuevas, Julia Schmale, Hélène Angot, Tuija Jokinen, Lauriane L. J. Quelever, Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt, Bianca Zilker, Andreas Richter, Jesús A. Serna, David Garcia-Nieto, Rafael P. Fernandez, Henrik Skov, Adela Dumitrascu, Patric Simões Pereira, Katarina Abrahamsson, Silvia Bucci, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Stohl, Ivo Beck, Tiia Laurila, Byron Blomquist, Dean Howard, Stephen D. Archer, Ludovic Bariteau, Detlev Helmig, Jacques Hueber, Hans-Werner Jacobi, Kevin Posman, Lubna Dada, Kaspar R. Daellenbach, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
- Abstract
Unlike bromine, the effect of iodine chemistry on the Arctic surface ozone budget is poorly constrained. We present ship-based measurements of halogen oxides in the high Arctic boundary layer from the sunlit period of March to October 2020 and show that iodine enhances springtime tropospheric ozone depletion. We find that chemical reactions between iodine and ozone are the second highest contributor to ozone loss over the study period, after ozone photolysis-initiated loss and ahead of bromine.
Iodine chemistry plays a more important role than bromine chemistry in tropospheric ozone losses in the Arctic, according to ship-based observations of halogen oxides from March to October 2020.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Ministry of Earth Sciences, India, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Universität Bremen, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Aarhus University, University of Gothenburg, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Helsinki, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Boulder A.I.R, University of Grenoble Alpes, Paul Scherrer Institute
- Journal
- Nature Geoscience
- Volume
- 15
- Pages
- 770-773
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 1752-0894
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01018-w
- Publication date
- 09-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105206 Meteorology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/substantial-contribution-of-iodine-to-arctic-ozone-destruction(e9599e04-f28b-4d6e-8495-40ebabe1570e).html