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Kaye & Jackman 1986
Kaye, J.A. and Jackman, C.H. (1986). Concentrations and uncertainties of stratospheric trace species inferred from limb infrared monitor of the stratosphere data 2. Monthly averaged OH, HO2, H2O2, and HO2NO2. Journal of Geophysical Research 91: doi: 10.1029/JD091iD01p01137. issn: 0148-0227.

Monthly, zonally averaged limb infrared monitor of the stratosphere data from the Nimbus 7 satellite are used with an essentially algebraic photochemical equilibrium model presented in part 1 of this series (Kaye and Jackman, this issue) to infer concentrations and uncertainties of the odd hydrogen species OH, HO2, H2O2, and HO2NO2 as a function of altitude, latitude, and season. The inferred concentrations for OH and H2O2 are found to be reasonably consistent with some but not all previous observations; most of the inferred HO2 concentrations are below those which have been observed. Concentrations of all inferred species at mid-latitudes are expected to maximize in the summer. Uncertainties μi are found to be largest in the lower stratosphere for all species and to decrease approximately in the order μH2O2HO2NO2HO2OH over most of the stratosphere. In the tropics and at mid-latitudes the variation of the uncertainties with latitude and season is substantially smaller than the inferred variation of the concentrations.

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