Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-833-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-833-2018
Research article
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23 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 23 Jan 2018

Vertical distributions of N2O isotopocules in the equatorial stratosphere

Sakae Toyoda, Naohiro Yoshida, Shinji Morimoto, Shuji Aoki, Takakiyo Nakazawa, Satoshi Sugawara, Shigeyuki Ishidoya, Mitsuo Uematsu, Yoichi Inai, Fumio Hasebe, Chusaku Ikeda, Hideyuki Honda, and Kentaro Ishijima

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (21 Aug 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
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RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (26 Nov 2017)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Nov 2017) by Thomas Röckmann
AR by Sakae Toyoda on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Dec 2017) by Thomas Röckmann
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By analysis of whole air samples collected by balloon-borne compact cryogenic samplers, we found that apparent isotope effect for stratospheric N2O between 25 and 30 km over the Equator is larger than that observed in other latitudes and that it is almost equal to the effect predicted by laboratory simulation experiments. These results suggest that equatorial middle stratosphere can be treated as an isolated region when we consider the decomposition of N2O by photochemical processes.
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