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Growth in stratospheric chlorine from short-lived chemicals not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

ABSTRACT: We have developed a chemical mechanism describing the tropospheric degradation of chlorine containing very short-lived substances (VSLS). The scheme was included in a global atmospheric model and used to quantify the stratospheric injection of chlorine from anthropogenic VSLS ( ClyVSLS) between 2005 and 2013. By constraining the model with surface measurements of chloroform (CHCl₃), dichloromethane (CH₂Cl₂), tetrachloroethene (C₂Cl₄), trichloroethene (C₂HCl₃), and 1,2-dichloroethane (CH₂ClCH₂Cl), we infer a 2013 ClyVSLS mixing ratio of 123 parts per trillion (ppt). Stratospheric injection of source gases dominates this supply, accounting for ?83% of the total. The remainder comes from VSLS-derived organic products, phosgene (COCl₂, 7%) and formyl chloride (CHClO, 2%), and also hydrogen chloride (HCl, 8%). Stratospheric ClyVSLS increased by ?52% between 2005 and 2013, with a mean growth rate of 3.7?ppt?Cl/yr. This increase is due to recent and ongoing growth in anthropogenic CH₂Cl₂-the most abundant chlorinated VSLS not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

SUBMITTER: Hossaini R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4981078 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Growth in stratospheric chlorine from short-lived chemicals not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

Hossaini R R Chipperfield M P MP Saiz-Lopez A A Harrison J J JJ von Glasow R R Sommariva R R Atlas E E Navarro M M Montzka S A SA Feng W W Dhomse S S Harth C C Mühle J J Lunder C C O'Doherty S S Young D D Reimann S S Vollmer M K MK Krummel P B PB Bernath P F PF

Geophysical research letters 20150601 11

We have developed a chemical mechanism describing the tropospheric degradation of chlorine containing very short-lived substances (VSLS). The scheme was included in a global atmospheric model and used to quantify the stratospheric injection of chlorine from anthropogenic VSLS ( ClyVSLS) between 2005 and 2013. By constraining the model with surface measurements of chloroform (CHCl3), dichloromethane (CH2Cl2), tetrachloroethene (C2Cl4), trichl ...[more]

PMID: 27570318

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