Testing Atmospheric Oxidation in an Alabama Forest

Author:

Feiner Philip A.1,Brune William H.1,Miller David O.1,Zhang Li1,Cohen Ronald C.2,Romer Paul S.2,Goldstein Allen H.2,Keutsch Frank N.34,Skog Kate M.4,Wennberg Paul O.5,Nguyen Tran B.5,Teng Alex P.5,DeGouw Joost67,Koss Abigail67,Wild Robert J.7,Brown Steven S.7,Guenther Alex8,Edgerton Eric9,Baumann Karsten9,Fry Juliane L.10

Affiliation:

1. Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

2. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

3. John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

4. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

5. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

6. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

7. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado

8. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

9. Atmospheric Research and Analysis, Inc., Cary, North Carolina

10. Department of Chemistry, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Abstract

Abstract The chemical species emitted by forests create complex atmospheric oxidation chemistry and influence global atmospheric oxidation capacity and climate. The Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) provided an opportunity to test the oxidation chemistry in a forest where isoprene is the dominant biogenic volatile organic compound. Hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2) radicals were two of the hundreds of atmospheric chemical species measured, as was OH reactivity (the inverse of the OH lifetime). OH was measured by laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and by taking the difference in signals without and with an OH scavenger that was added just outside the instrument’s pinhole inlet. To test whether the chemistry at SOAS can be simulated by current model mechanisms, OH and HO2 were evaluated with a box model using two chemical mechanisms: Master Chemical Mechanism, version 3.2 (MCMv3.2), augmented with explicit isoprene chemistry and MCMv3.3.1. Measured and modeled OH peak at about 106 cm−3 and agree well within combined uncertainties. Measured and modeled HO2 peak at about 27 pptv and also agree well within combined uncertainties. Median OH reactivity cycled between about 11 s−1 at dawn and about 26 s−1 during midafternoon. A good test of the oxidation chemistry is the balance between OH production and loss rates using measurements; this balance was observed to within uncertainties. These SOAS results provide strong evidence that the current isoprene mechanisms are consistent with measured OH and HO2 and, thus, capture significant aspects of the atmospheric oxidation chemistry in this isoprene-rich forest.

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Atmospheric Science

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