Journal
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue 17, Pages 8009-8020Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-8009-2012
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- NSF Atmospheric Chemistry Program [0849475, 0922562, 0852406, 0934408]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [0849475] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The understanding of oxidation in forest atmospheres is being challenged by measurements of unexpectedly large amounts of hydroxyl (OH). A significant number of these OH measurements were made by laser-induced fluorescence in low-pressure detection chambers (called Fluorescence Assay with Gas Expansion (FAGE)) using the Penn State Ground-based Tropospheric Hydrogen Oxides Sensor (GTHOS). We deployed a new chemical removal method to measure OH in parallel with the traditional FAGE method in a California forest. The new method gives on average only 40-60% of the OH from the traditional method and this discrepancy is temperature dependent. Evidence indicates that the new method measures atmospheric OH while the traditional method is affected by internally generated OH, possibly from oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds. The improved agreement between OH measured by this new technique and modeled OH suggests that oxidation chemistry in at least one forest atmosphere is better understood than previously thought.
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