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- Title
Photochemical Impact on Ozone Fluxes in Coastal Waters.
- Authors
Coleman, L.; McVeigh, P.; Berresheim, H.; Martino, M.; O'Dowd, C. D.
- Abstract
Ozone fluxes, derived from gradient measurements in Northeast Atlantic coastal waters, were observed to depend on both tide height and solar radiation. Peak ozone fluxes of -0.26 ± 0.04 μgm-2 s-1 occurred during low-tide conditions when exposed microalgae fields contributed to the flux footprint. Additionally, at mid-to-high tide, when water surfaces contribute predominantly to the flux footprint, fluxes of the order of -0.12 ± 0.03 μgm-2 s-1 were observed. Considering only fluxes over water covered surfaces, and using an advanced ozone deposition model that accounts for surface-water chemistry enhancing the deposition sink, it is demonstrated that a photochemical enhancement reaction with dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is required to explain the enhanced ozone deposition during daylight hours. This sink amounts to an ozone loss rate of up to 0.6 ppb per hour under peak solar irradiance and points to a missing sink in the marine boundary layer ozone budget.
- Subjects
ATLANTIC Ocean; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; OZONE; TERRITORIAL waters; MICROALGAE; SOLAR radiation; CARBON compounds; CHEMICAL oceanography
- Publication
Advances in Meteorology, 2012, p1
- ISSN
1687-9309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2012/943785