Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4081-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4081-2017
Research article
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27 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 27 Mar 2017

Evidence for renoxification in the tropical marine boundary layer

Chris Reed, Mathew J. Evans, Leigh R. Crilley, William J. Bloss, Tomás Sherwen, Katie A. Read, James D. Lee, and Lucy J. Carpenter

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Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies J. B. Burkholder, S. P. Sander, J., Abbatt, J. R., Barker, R. E., Huie, C. E., Kolb, M. J., Kurylo, V. L., Orkin, D. M., Wilmouth, and P. H. Wine http://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov

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The source of ozone-depleting compounds in the remote troposphere has been thought to be long-range transport of secondary pollutants such as organic nitrates. Processing of organic nitrates to nitric acid and subsequent deposition on surfaces in the atmosphere was thought to remove these nitrates from the ozone–NOx–HOx cycle. We found through observation of NOx in the remote tropical troposphere at the Cape Verde Observatory that surface nitrates can be released back into the atmosphere.
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