Photodissociation of particulate nitrate as a source of daytime tropospheric Cl2

oleh: Xiang Peng, Tao Wang, Weihao Wang, A. R. Ravishankara, Christian George, Men Xia, Min Cai, Qinyi Li, Christian Mark Salvador, Chiho Lau, Xiaopu Lyu, Chun Nan Poon, Abdelwahid Mellouki, Yujing Mu, Mattias Hallquist, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Hai Guo, Hartmut Herrmann, Chuan Yu, Jianing Dai, Yanan Wang, Xinke Wang, Alfred Yu, Kenneth Leung, Shuncheng Lee, Jianmin Chen

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01

Deskripsi

This study unravels an important daytime Cl2 source in the extra-polar atmosphere and shows that photolysis of particle nitrate at high acidity produced unprecedented levels of Cl2, boosting the oxidative power and air pollutants like O3.