% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence
% of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older.
% Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or
% “biber”.
@ARTICLE{Wegner:278675,
author = {Wegner, Tobias and Pitts, M. C. and Poole, L. R. and
Tritscher, Ines and Grooss, Jens-Uwe and Nakajima, H.},
title = {{V}ortex-wide chlorine activation by a mesosclae {PSC}
event in the {A}rctic winter of 2009/10},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions},
volume = {15},
issn = {1680-7367},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-07000},
pages = {33731-33754},
year = {2015},
abstract = {In the Arctic polar vortex of the 2009/10 winter
temperatures were low enough to allow widespread formation
of Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC). These clouds occurred
during the initial chlorine activation phase which provided
the opportunity to investigate the impact of PSCs on
chlorine activation. Satellite observations of gas-phase
species and PSCs are used in combination with trajectory
modeling to assess this initial activation. The initial
activation occurred in association with the formation of
PSCs over the east coast of Greenland at the beginning of
January 2010. Although this area of PSCs covered only a
small portion of the vortex, it was responsible for almost
the entire initial activation of chlorine vortex wide.
Observations show HCl mixing ratios decreased rapidly in and
downstream of this region. Trajectory calculations and
simplified heterogeneous chemistry modeling confirmed that
the initial chlorine activation continued until ClONO2 was
completely depleted and the activated air masses were
advected throughout the polar vortex. For the calculation of
heterogeneous reaction rates, surface area density is
estimated from backscatter observations. Modeled
heterogeneous reaction rates along trajectories intersecting
with the PSC indicate that the initial phase of chlorine
activation occurred in just a few hours. These calculations
also indicate that chlorine activation on the binary
background aerosol is significantly slower than on the PSCs
and the observed chlorine activation can only be explained
by an increase in surface area density due to PSCs.
Furthermore, there is a strong correlation between the
magnitude of the observed HCl depletion and PSC surface
area.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.5194/acpd-15-33731-2015},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/278675},
}