A General Scavenging Rate Constant for Reaction of Hydroxyl Radical with Organic Carbon in Atmospheric Waters

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العنوان: A General Scavenging Rate Constant for Reaction of Hydroxyl Radical with Organic Carbon in Atmospheric Waters
المؤلفون: S. Azechi, D. Handa, Ai Tsuhako, Youichi Miyagi, Cort Anastasio, Takemitsu Arakaki, Kouichirou Okada, Taro Kimura, Yuji Kotani, Hitomi Nakajima, Yukiko Kuroki
المصدر: Environmental Science & Technology. 47:8196-8203
بيانات النشر: American Chemical Society (ACS), 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
مصطلحات موضوعية: Total organic carbon, Aqueous solution, Atmosphere, Hydroxyl Radical, Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Water, Free Radical Scavengers, General Chemistry, Photochemistry, Carbon, Aerosol, Kinetics, chemistry.chemical_compound, Reaction rate constant, Dissolved organic carbon, Environmental Chemistry, Hydroxyl radical, Sink (computing), Scavenging
الوصف: Hydroxyl radical (OH) is an important oxidant in atmospheric aqueous phases such as cloud and fog drops and water-containing aerosol particles. We find that numerical models nearly always overestimate aqueous hydroxyl radical concentrations because they overpredict its rate of formation and, more significantly, underpredict its sinks. To address this latter point, we examined OH sinks in atmospheric drops and aqueous particles using both new samples and an analysis of published data. Although the molecular composition of organic carbon, the dominant sink of OH, is extremely complex and poorly constrained, this sink behaves very similarly in different atmospheric waters and even in surface waters. Thus, the sink for aqueous OH can be estimated as the concentration of dissolved organic carbon multiplied by a general scavenging rate constant [kC,OH = (3.8 ± 1.9) × 10(8) L (mol C)(-1) s(-1)], a simple process that should significantly improve estimates of OH concentrations in atmospheric drops and aqueous particles.
تدمد: 1520-5851
0013-936X
DOI: 10.1021/es401927b
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::5e2a5384005309aa68b864f0f1d17438
https://doi.org/10.1021/es401927b
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....5e2a5384005309aa68b864f0f1d17438
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:15205851
0013936X
DOI:10.1021/es401927b