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Snider, J.R. and Murphy, T. (1995). Airborne hydrogen peroxide measurements in supercooled clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research 100: doi: 10.1029/95JD01942. issn: 0148-0227. |
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Airborne measurements of hydrogen peroxide and its partitioning between the aqueous and gas phases were conducted during studies of wintertime orographic clouds at temperatures ranging between -9¿ and -24 ¿C. A subset of the derived values of the H2O2 Henry's law coefficient, based on measurement of gas-phase H2O2 and the physical properties of the cloud, were found to agree with laboratory measurements extrapolated to the cloud temperature. Disparities between the derived and temperature-extrapolated values were also observed, but this was attributed to overestimates of the in-cloud H2O2 mixing ratio that result from solute H2O2 volatilization on the reverse-flow air sample inlet during cloud droplet impaction and freezing. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that the derived Henry's law coefficients which exhibit agreement with the temperature-extrapolated values were conducted using a narrower inlet which intercepts less cloud water. Also discussed are vertical profiles of gaseous H2O2 within and above a cloud-capped boundary layer and in-cloud measurements which reveal that H2O2 scavenging by ice hydrometeors is minimal in comparison to uptake by an equivalent mass of liquid cloud droplets. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995 |
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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud physics and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Constituent sources and sinks |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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