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| Titel |
Absolute absorption cross-section and photolysis rate of I2 |
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A. Saiz-Lopez, R. W. Saunders, D. M. Joseph, S. H. Ashworth, J. M. C. Plane |
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Englisch
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1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 4, no. 5 ; Nr. 4, no. 5 (2004-09-01), S.1443-1450 |
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250001953
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/acp-4-1443-2004.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Following recent observations of molecular iodine (I2) in the coastal marine boundary layer
(MBL) (Saiz-Lopez and Plane, 2004), it has become important to determine the absolute
absorption cross-section of I2 at reasonably high resolution, and also to evaluate the rate of
photolysis of the molecule in the lower atmosphere. The absolute absorption cross-section (σ)
of gaseous I2 at room temperature and pressure (295K, 760Torr) was therefore measured
between 182 and 750nm using a Fourier Transform spectrometer at a resolution of
4cm-1 (0.1nm at λ=500nm). The maximum absorption cross-section in the visible region was
observed at λ=533.0nm to be σ=(4.24±0.50)x10-18cm2molecule-1. The spectrum is
available as supplementary material accompanying this paper. The photo-dissociation rate
constant (J) of gaseous I2 was also measured directly in a solar simulator, yielding
J(I2)=0.12±0.03s-1 for the lower troposphere. This is in excellent agreement with the value of
0.12±0.015s-1 calculated using the measured absorption cross-section, terrestrial solar flux for clear
sky conditions and assuming a photo-dissociation yield of unity. A two-stream radiation
transfer model was then used to determine the variation in photolysis rate with solar zenith
angle (SZA), from which an analytic expression is derived for use in atmospheric models.
Photolysis appears to be the dominant loss process for I2 during daytime, and hence an
important source of iodine atoms in the lower atmosphere. |
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