First measurements of CIOOCI in the stratosphere: The coupling of CIOOCI and CIO in the Arctic polar vortex

Abstract

The first measurements of CIOOCI in the stratosphere have been acquired from a NASA ER-2 aircraft, deployed from Kiruna, Sweden (68°N, 21°E), during the joint SOLVE/THESEO-2000 mission of the winter of 1999/2000. CIOOCI is detected by thermal dissociation into two CIO fragments that are measured by the well-known technique of chemical conversion, vacuum ultraviolet resonance fluorescence. Ambient CIO is detected simultaneously. Observations of the ratio [CIOOCI]/[CIO]2 (estimated uncertainty of ∓25%, 1 σ) are used with a time-dependent photochemical model, to test the model representation of the ratios of kinetic parameters J/kProd and kLoss/kProd for day and nighttime observations, respectively. Here, kProd and kLoss are the rate constants for CIOOCI production and loss, respectively, and J is the photolysis rate of CIOOCI. The observations are in good agreement with J based upon the 2002 JPL recommended cross sections for CIOOCI [Sander et al., 2003], if the true value of kProd is given by either the 2000 JPL recommendation [Sander et al., 2000] or the work of Trolier et al. [1990]. The largest values of kProd given by Bloss et al. [2001] and the 2002 JPL recommendation are consistent with the observations only if J is increased by a significant amount. This is accomplished if J is calculated with the larger CIOOCI cross sections measured by Burkholder et al. [1990]. The J values for CIOOCI based on the Huder and DeMore [1995] cross sections are too small, by factors of ∼1.6 to 2.5 for all values of kProd, based on the observations. Nighttime results suggest that, for 190 < T < 200 K, the values for KEq (the equilibrium constant, equal to the ratio of kProd/kLoss) of Cox and Hayman [1988] and Avallone and Toohey [2001] are in best agreement with the observations. Copyright 2004 by the American Geophysical Union.