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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages 1945-1948Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012468
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We report observations of iodine dioxide (OIO) in the remote marine boundary layer. The measurements were made at the remote site of Cape Grim in Tasmania, using the technique of differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS), in the 540 - 570 nm spectral region. Employing a cross-section of 6.8 x 10(-17) cm(2) at 548.6 nm, the concentration of OIO was found to vary from below the detection limit of the instrument (approximate to 0.5 parts per trillion (ppt)) to a maximum of almost 3 ppt after sunset. During the day the upper limit to the atmospheric turnover time of OIO was found to be 20 min., when removal by gas-phase reaction and/or photolysis appears to dominate. At night the much longer turnover time of approximate to 1 - 4 hours can be explained by uptake on aerosol.
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