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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 4005-4018Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-4005-2022
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- KAKENHI [16KK0017, 21H04933]
- ArCS (Arctic Challenge for Sustainability) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [JPMXD1300000000]
- European Research Council Executive Agency under the European Union [ERC2016-COG 726349]
- Fukuoka University [197103]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21H04933, 16KK0017] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Iodine compounds can destroy ozone and form aerosols, affecting the global radiative balance. This study reports measurements of iodine monoxide concentrations from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere, with the highest concentrations observed over the Western Pacific warm pool. A negative correlation was found between ozone and iodine monoxide, suggesting that there are O-3-independent pathways that contribute to ozone loss. The daily ozone loss rate related to iodine in the Western Pacific warm pool is as high as approximately 2 ppbv, indicating a potential impact of climate change on marine atmospheric chemistry.
Iodine compounds destroy ozone (O-3) in the global troposphere and form new aerosols, thereby affecting the global radiative balance. However, few reports have described the latitudinal distribution of atmospheric iodine compounds. This work reports iodine monoxide (IO) measurements taken over unprecedented sampling areas from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere and spanning sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of approximately 0 to 31.5 degrees C. The highest IO concentrations were observed over the Western Pacific warm pool (WPWP), where O-3 minima were also measured. There, a negative correlation was found between O-3 and IO mixing ratios at extremely low O-3 concentrations. This correlation is not explained readily by the O-3-dependent oceanic fluxes of photolabile inorganic iodine compounds, which is the dominant source in recent global-scale chemistry transport models representing iodine chemistry. Actually, the correlation rather implies that O-3-independent pathways can be similarly important in the WPWP. The O-3-independent fluxes result in a 15 % greater O-3 loss than that estimated for O-3-dependent processes alone. The daily O-3 loss rate related to iodine over the WPWP is as high as approximately 2 ppbv (parts per billion by volume) despite low O-3 concentrations of approximately 10 ppbv, with the loss being up to 100 % greater than that without iodine. This finding suggests that warming SST driven by climate change might affect the marine atmospheric chemical balance through iodine-ozone chemistry.
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