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- Title
Iodine-mediated coastal particle formation: an overview of the Reactive Halogens in the Marine Boundary Layer (RHaMBLe) Roscoff coastal study.
- Authors
McFiggans, G.; Bale, C. S. E.; Ball, S. M.; Beames, J. M.; Bloss, W. J.; Carpenter, L. J.; Dorsey, J.; Dunk, R.; Flynn, M. J.; Furneaux, K. L.; Gallagher, M. W.; Heard, D. E.; Hollingsworth, A. M.; Hornsby, K.; Ingham, T.; Jones, C. E.; Jones, R. L.; Kramer, L. J.; Langridge, J. M.; Leblanc, C.
- Abstract
This paper presents a summary of the measurements that were made during the heavily-instrumented Reactive Halogens in the Marine Boundary Layer (RHaMBLe) coastal study in Roscoff on the North West coast of France. It was clearly demonstrated that iodine-mediated coastal particle formation occurs, driven by daytime low tide emission of molecular iodine, I2, by macroalgal species fully or partially exposed by the receding waterline. Ultrafine particle concentrations strongly correlate with the rapidly recycled reactive iodine species, IO, produced at high concentrations following photolysis of I2. The heterogeneous macroalgal I2 sources lead to variable relative concentrations of iodine species observed by path-integrated and in situ measurement techniques. Apparent particle emission fluxes were associated with an enhanced apparent depositional flux of ozone, consistent with both a direct O3 deposition to macroalgae and involvement of O3 in iodine photochemistry and subsequent particle formation below the measurement height. The magnitude of the particle formation events was observed to be greatest at the lowest tides with higher concentrations of ultrafine particles growing to much larger sizes, probably by the condensation of anthropogenically-formed condensable material. At such sizes the particles should be able to act as cloud condensation nuclei at reasonable atmospheric supersaturations.
- Subjects
HALOGENS; IODINE; BOUNDARY layer (Aerodynamics); EMISSIONS (Air pollution); CONDENSATION
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 2009, Vol 9, Issue 6, p26421
- ISSN
1680-7367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acpd-9-26421-2009